#251 James Nestor - Breaking Down the Lost Art of Breathing
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
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Why Do We Stop Breathing Through Our Nasses?
People with really hairy noses have better filtered air by the time it reaches their lungs. I'm always intrigued about evolution, and why, all of a sudden, did humans stop breathing through their nose and start breathing through their mouths? So i had never thought when i was researching and writing a book about breathing, that i would be spending so much time looking at ancient human skulls or hanging out with biological anthropologists. But i wanted to understand the issues behind why humans have become the worst breathers in the animal kingdom.
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