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
>
>
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$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
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