Giraffes are also vertebrates, like humans. In fact, despite their different neck sizes, humans and giraffes have exactly seven vertebrae bones in their neck. This similarity suggests human and giraffe necks are.

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Jasper Wolfe

8 August, 13:58

Giraffes are also vertebrates, like humans. In fact, despite their different neck sizes, humans and giraffes have exactly seven vertebrae bones in their neck. This similarity suggests human and giraffe necks are.

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Means they are related through a common distant ancestor. This shows that these structures (morphology) are homologous. They all have 7 neck (cervical) vertebrae, but giraffes cervical vertebrae are elongated compared to that of humans due to their adaptation as browsers.