Richard Dawkins shows the giraffe's recurrent laryngeal nerve
MysOxen · Documentary · 4 min · 2010 · YouTube title: Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe
Why it's here
HN uses it as the canonical example that evolution is not optimal and can get stuck in local maxima.
What it covers
A clip from Channel 4's Inside Nature's Giants in which Richard Dawkins shows the recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe during a dissection. The nerve takes a long detour down the neck and back up.