{"id":949,"date":"2007-05-02T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/human-head-with-wrong-orientation-on-the-body\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T19:35:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T18:35:27","slug":"human-head-with-wrong-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/human-head-with-wrong-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Human head with wrong orientation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a funny comment by <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friedemann_Schrenk\">Friedemann Schrenk<\/a> in a recent radio duo podcast [<a href=\"http:\/\/download.br-online.de\/imperia\/md\/audio\/podcast\/import\/2007_03\/2007_03_12_16_33_28_podcastradioduofriedemannschre_a.mp3\">link   to br online<\/a>] that the human head sits with a wrong orientation on the human body as the pipelines for food and air cross over.<!--more--><br \/>\nLet`s forget about the cervical spinal cord that is not crossing. But why is the air tube not ending somewhere at the larynx?<br \/>\nFirst of all, the voice of Anna Netrebko would sound like Donald Duck without the dual use of the pharynx. Second, cough speed of >100 km\/h could not be stopped in a gentle way. Possibly these are not convincing arguments for a palaeoanthropologist but I have a third one: There would be no set of teeth to defend the airway entry.<br \/>\nDoes anybody still believe that that the human head has the wrong orientation on the body?<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a funny comment by Friedemann Schrenk in a recent radio duo podcast [link to br online] that the human head sits with a wrong orientation on the human body as the pipelines for food and air cross over. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 17.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-joke-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}