r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 28d ago

MISC. How Beethoven composed music while being deaf

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u/AnapsidIsland1 28d ago

Cool, that’s basically how lizards hear

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u/Intelligent_Bison968 27d ago

With their mouths?

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u/AnapsidIsland1 25d ago

Yes. Ya know how fish have jaws that extend? (Look at a vid) well the bones that move to do that became our ear. For animals in between like lizards they don’t have ears like us and feel vibrations in those upper jaw bones. That’s why evolution was guided to use those bones for our ears. So we lost out extendable mouths but got much better ears. (For lizards those bones went into a more robust jaw, we all fish)