Sound in the animal kingdom, with David George Haskell
Instant Genius
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Introduction
i talkd to biologist david george haskell, author of sounds, wild and broken. He says that life on earth was silent for the first three billion years after it formed. The ability to sense sound emerges from tiny, little hairs on the surface of cells. So are we humans actually listening in an aquatic medium the deepest part of our ear, in the coils of our inner ear?
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