: In giraffes, this nerve takes a 15-foot detour down the neck and back up just to reach the larynx, a "quirk of history" that only makes sense through gradual evolution from fish ancestors.
Far from being a slow process only visible in the deep past, Dawkins provides examples of :
: Experiments showing how guppies quickly evolved different color patterns based on the presence or absence of predators. Why It Matters
: From the tiny remnants of tails in humans to "useless" pseudogenes in our DNA, our bodies are walking histories of where we came from. Evolution Before Our Eyes