The Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe: Does it Prove Evolution?
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The recurrent laryngeal nerve: Much ado has been made in recent years by evolutionsts like Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Neil Shubin, Matt Ridley and many others about the Nervus laryngeus recurrens as a "proof" or at least indisputable evidence of the giraffe's evolution from fish (in a gradualist scenario over millions of links, of course). Markus Rammerstorfer has written a (scientifically detailed and convincing) synoptic critique on this old and, in fact, already long disproved evolutionary interpretation of the course of this nerve in 2004 (see Rammerstorfer http://members.liwest.at/rammerstorfer/NLrecurrens.pdf). There are some main points which I would like to mention here:
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