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Quirks of Human Anatomy (sdbonline.org)
snthpy 38 minutes ago [-]
This is how future codebases will be analysed. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Evolution been doing Agile for aeons. Responding to change over following a plan ...
9dev 19 minutes ago [-]
Ah; but how annoying it is to discover something like the inverted retina bug, only to figure out it is effectively unsolvable now due to all the follow-up architecture decisions built on it?
ButlerianJihad 28 minutes ago [-]
You’ve probed Chesterton’s Fence; now let’s turn the page to Chesterton’s Appendix!
ginko 1 hours ago [-]
Not humans specifically but one of my favorite quirks of vertebrate evolution is the recurrent laryngeal nerve that loops around the aorta and goes back up to the larynx[1].

In giraffes that nerve is several meters long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve

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