Posts Tagged ‘diving reflex’

Images from SPLASH! #3

Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!

This is from Chapter 1, “Gods, Humans, and the Aquatic Ape”:
Up until about age six months, an infant’s windpipe automatically closes underwater, an indication perhaps of our aquatic heritage. (Credit: Affebook, altered to black & white.)

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