Air goes to throat {larynx}|. Larynx is behind adam's apple. In infants and vertebrates, flat tongue and high larynx allow simultaneous drinking and breathing, but adult humans have low larynx and downward curving tongue to make a sound chamber and allow non-nasal sounds. Early Homo sapiens [-400000] had tongue and larynx like modern people. Homo erectus had arching in larynx [-2000000], but Australopithecus had no arching and so only nasal sounds.
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