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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!keith
  2. From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.origins
  4. Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
  5. Date: 22 Nov 1992 20:45:48 GMT
  6. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  7. Lines: 11
  8. Message-ID: <1eorhsINN96h@gap.caltech.edu>
  9. References: <MMF=kw-@engin.umich.edu> <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov21.013411.17810@s1.gov> <By4oI3.Hv1@access.digex.com> <98714@netnews.upenn.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
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  12. weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Our mouths are also poorly designed regarding eating.  I don't know of
  15. >any other animal that is capable of choking on its food.  Of course, we
  16. >gained speech in this trade-off.
  17.  
  18. One time, my dog was eating really fast, and then he started coughing
  19. something awful.  I think he was choking...
  20.  
  21. keith
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