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1. Humans are vulnerable to choking because of a phylogeneticconstraint: when the structures that would eventually evolve intolungs first evolved, evolution lacked the foresight to head off afuture choking risk once lunge became the sole way of breathing.Can you think of another example of how phylogenetic constraint andevolution's lack of foresight have left the human body vulnerableto disease, injury, inefficiencies, or malfunction?

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Humans beings have neck through which the entire nerves coming from brain patth through to the whole body Any damage to the neck region cuts of all the nerves from brain to the body This can cause death if the damage is more If it is minor damage also it can lead to    See Answer
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