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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.084258.15930@smds.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 08:42:58 GMT
- 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>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- In article <98714@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
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- >Our mouths are also poorly designed regarding eating. I don't know of
- >any other animal that is capable of choking on its food. Of course, we
- >gained speech in this trade-off.
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- Given that speech led in due course to writing, and writing led in
- due course to electronic media, and electronic media led in due course
- to usenet, and usenet begat talk.origins, one can only question the
- value of this trade-off.
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