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Oh lord, I misread: The breasts, who never sinned, live in a prelapsarian state when we leave them alone. Otherwise, not all inheritance is earned. - Jim On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, Millicent. Anybody know if this is functional, aside from helping > us identify the transgendered? Behind my curiosity about the necks of other > primates is a curiosity about whether the Adam's Apple is a survival of > earlier mutations with no particular function. > > If humans and only humans have them it's presumably because of original > sin. Men got Adam's Apples, women got difficult pregnancies. The beasts, who > never sinned, live in a prelapsarian state when we leave them alone. > > > At 04:34 PM 7/28/2010, you wrote: > >> From Wikipedia: >> >> The laryngeal prominence is usually more prominent in adult men than in >> women or children. The growth of the larynx itself during puberty is >> responsible for the vocal instability in teenage boys. The laryngeal >> prominence is merely the protrusion one sees of the thyroid cartilage making >> up the body of the larynx. The laryngeal prominence is usually more >> prominent in adult males because the thyroid cartilage elongates during >> puberty, protruding out the front of the neck more noticeably. The result is >> that the two laminae (thin cartilage) of the thyroid cartilage that form the >> protrusion meet at an average angle of 90° in males, and 120° in females, >> so there is less cartilage protruding out in females. >> >> >> >> >> Millicent >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Sent: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 1:26 pm >> Subject: help, I can't find the answer! >> >> >> I was looking at a reconstruction of a Neandertal male. His neck was >> hidden by his beard, and I wondered: is there an Adam's Apple behind it? I >> don't know if there's a way to tell from the fossil record. But one thought >> led, as it tends to, to another, and I found myself wondering if other >> primate males have them. >> >> It seems to me perfectly reasonable to ask this of a poetry list. Faute de >> mieux. >> >> While I'm at it, anybody know why human males have them? Do they have a >> function? Women seem to get along perfectly well without. >> >> Best, >> >> Mark >> >> >> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. >> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm >> >> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of >> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through >> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ >> fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesÂthe more that gets left out, >> the more they seem to contain… One can hear echoess from all the various >> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. >> His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical >> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only innto a mind, but a person, a >> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem." >> >> >> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. >> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml >> > > > > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm > > > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ > fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the > more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical > threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem." > > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Salt River Review: http://www.poetserv.org http://www.hamiltonstone.org/catalog.html#temporarymeaning http://www.fieralingue.it/documenti/mr_bondo.pdf http://www.poetserv.org/jvc/home/index.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescervantes/