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Most mammals (if not most animals) breathe through their noses.
People complaining about humans being designed poorly don't know that this design "flaw" is what allows us to be able to speak.
Yes, this increases our risk of dying by choking. But despite that, being able to speak has been so evolutionarily advantageous that our increased risk of dying is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
I'd have put the vocal chords in the nasal passage, allowing humans to still talk while eliminating the choking problem.
The laryngeal nerve is a much more stupid design, simply because there's no practical reason for it to be the way it is.
Also: if we didn't have the ability to breath through our mouths, swimming as a sport would be harder, since we don't have the ability to close our nose-holes.
Yeah, I say designed, but it's not in the "something planned it" sense. We ended up this way because of a series of random chances that just sorta' worked in allowing us to live long enough to have more successful offspring.
Exactly. A very simple correction to the design would allow for both.
The laryngeal nerve is a great example of how flawed our bodies are. A few more are:
I've saved this under "Why our 'intelligent' designer was an incompetent amateur."
Quite a lot of people can close their nose-holes by curling up their upper lip. I'm not one of them, unfortunately.
Like, airtight seal? For swimming?
Weird.
Yep, my cousin dives like that, it's a superpower.
I have never meet your cousin, and yet I envy him.
If we ever do get practical body modification, the second thing I'm doing is getting sealable nostrils and ears, so can swim in comfort at any reasonable depth.
The first thing, of course, is getting everything that's just fucking broken in my body fixed. The knee I fucked up doing moguls, and is getting more gimpy the older I get; the elbow I messed up trying to parkour down some stairs; my chronically fucked up back, thanks Army!