Why don’t we have the ability to “close” our ears, just like our eyes?
In: Biology
The “ability to close our eyes” is also known as “eyelids”. We evolved eyelids because our eyes would dry out or get junk in them otherwise, which could permanentaly damage them. We generally do not have this issue with our ears, or the cases where we do (e.g. water in your ears) are minor enough to not cause natural selection to “solve” the problem
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