Darwin & 'the record of the rocks'

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THE LARYNGEAL NERVE

Let us untangle the recurrent laryngeal nerves.
Two of the many cranial nerves begin
At the cranial stem and head toward
Their final destination in the larynx.

One of them, as we would expect,
Takes the short direct route.
The other takes
A seemingly ludicrous excursion south,
Through the chest cavity,
Below the heart, makes a u-turn,
And comes right back up
To terminate at the larynx.

Dawkins remarks,
“If you think of it as the product of design,
The recurrent laryngeal nerve is a disgrace.”

If however one examines this phenomenon
With evolutionary eyes,
We learn that our aquatic ancestor’s
Embryonic brachial arches formed gills
As well as the ventral aorta.

As these features evolved,
The connections were maneuvered
To facilitate new features.

Instead of altering the laryngeal nerve path
To a more direct route
It was pushed aside during the transition
And there it remained.
What we’re left with today is our own
Comically circuitous laryngeal nerve route.
The laryngeal nerve is
An example of history, not design.

[Meem]

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Hey, how about those rocks! It seems nasa missed those, Darwin too!

[labelwench]

Among the record of the rocks, we also find evidence of the humans that lived during ancient times. Today in the news, the finding of a rare double tomb in Egypt, believed to be that of a father and son who served as royal scribes, some 4300 years ago, the estimate.

The tombs lie just west of Saqqara's most famed pyramid, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser, which is surrounded by a large burial ground, contain tombs from Egypt's earliest history up through Roman times.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=180825