Why is it that bears, birds and other animals can eat fish without getting the bone stuck in their throat, but when humans do it and the bone gets stuck, it becomes an emergency ?
In: Biology
There’s some good answers here I will add that the human upper airway (oropharynx) has evolved greatly for speech, but this has made us more prone to choking. Apparently speech confers enough of an evolutionary advantage to be beneficial, but it does have significant drawbacks such as our choking risk.
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