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Chapter summary Assignment

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LEGACIES OF EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
The past! the past! the past!
The past—the dark unfathom’d retrospect!
The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
The past—the infinite greatness of the past!
For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

—“Passage to India” by Walt Whitman

Phil, the unfortunate television weatherman who lives one day over and over again in the movie Groundhog Day, enters a restaurant just as a diner begins to choke on a bite of food. Phil, having observed this scene many times before, calmly steps behind the gasping man, wraps his arms around the man’s upper abdomen, and suddenly squeezes hard. The food is expelled from the diner’s windpipe and he can breathe again, his life saved by Phil and the Heimlich maneuver.

About one person in a hundred thousand chokes to death each year. While this death rate is small compared to that from automobile accidents, choking has been a persistent cause of death not only throughout human evolution but throughout vertebrate evolution because all vertebrates share the same design flaw: our mouth is below and in front of our nose, but our food-conveying esophagus is behind the air-conveying trachea in our chest, so the tubes must cross in the throat. If food blocks this intersection, air cannot reach our lungs. When we swallow, reflex mechanisms seal off the opening to the trachea so that food does not enter it. Unfortunately, no real-life machinery is perfect. Sometimes the reflex falters and “something goes down the wrong pipe.” For this contingency we have a defense, the choking reflex, a precisely coordinated pattern of muscular contractions and tracheal constriction that creates a burst of exhaled air to forcibly expel misdirected food. If this backup mechanism fails and an obstruction blocking the trachea is not dislodged, we die—unless, that is, Phil or someone like him happens to be nearby.

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