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How does the body know that the solid stuff you swallowed is 'food' and shouldn't go through to the lungs but to the stomach ? Did this system evolve to perfection overtime, meaning that 'people' used to die due to this when the transition to humans was beginning ?

by /u/94d33m2 in /r/askscience

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