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На этот случай, думаю, следует сохранить полость носа, отделив ее от гортани мембраной из клеток, которые снабжались бы кислородом преимущественно за счет прямого орошения, а не по сосудам. Достаточно будет нашим потомкам выйти из воды хотя бы на время — и мембрана начнет атрофироваться.
I'd suggest that the nose be retained, maintaining the nasal cavity as a part of the otological system, but cutting off the cavity from the larynx with a membrane of cells that are supplied with oxygen by direct irrigation, rather than by the circulatory system. Such a membrane wouldn't survive for many generations, once the creature took to living out of the water even for part of its life-time;
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