Here is another good reason to visit Jerry Coyne's website.

Jerry Coyne's website: The recurrent laryngeal nerve as evidence for evolution

"On pages 82-84 of Why Evolution is True I discuss the recurrent laryngeal nerve of humans (and other tetrapods) as an example of evolution. It’s evidence via “retrodiction”, which is what I call the situation when a previously unexplained and puzzling phenomenon can be understood only in light of a theory, thus supporting that theory—in this case, evolution."

"Rather than describe it again, here are two videos showing it and explaining how the configuration of that nerve supports evolution."

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I bought Jerry Coyne's "Why Evolution Is True" on March 6, 2009, according to Amazon. 10 years later his famous book is still the best book about the evidence for evolution.

An interesting coincidence. I don't make things up. I'm not making this up.

I have read "Why Evolution Is True" two times and I often read parts of the book. Last night I wanted to read "Why Evolution Is True" for a few minutes. When I opened the book I was at page 82 and I read about the laryngeal nerve. That's the coincidence. The next day (today) Jerry Coyne at his website talked about what he wrote at pages 82-84. What are the odds?

My blog, also known as this blog, has a post I wrote one year ago about the laryngeal nerve at "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

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Even if you think evolution is boring you definitely want to watch this video about the laryngeal nerve because it's very humorous.

The stupidest nerve in the human body.