Ear Growth

Every now and then, you have this blindind realisation where you comprehend an intricacy of the cosmos you didn't know existed.

I was in a Mumbai Local, listening to a Zeest song, and looking out of the door. The door was blocked by this really old man, and I couldn't help notice that he had really big ears. Wondered how his ears had gotten so big, and recalled that I had read somewhere that the ears continue to grow throughout your life when most other body parts stop growing between the ages eighteen to twenty one.

Wondered why ears continue to grow and other body parts do not - and realised that too. Our capacity to hear decreases with age because the fragile drums lose their capacity to accept sound. The Pinnae grow larger to recieve more sound.

I have no textbook confirming this, but I am pretty sure this is true. As a fallout, if someone is trying to hide their age, you can judge their age looking at their ears. Your ears can reveal your true age. Therefore, ladies, remember to get ear reduction surgeries. Will be funny if that becomes a trend for people like Prmeshwar Godrej. Won't be surprised though.

As a part of evolution however, if old females are not the preferred mate material, then women at least, wouldn't acquire large ear pinnae. Think their usefullness for survival outweighed the lack of it for mate attraction. Probable post their reproductive age anyway. Will have to see if women of the same age as men have smaller ear pinnae - would prove this theory.

Funny how much you can speculate and contemplate on things like ears.