FOR NEARLY THREE billion years, life on Earth was mute. Nothing sang, buzzed, or croaked. Ocean animals swished through the water, but their noises were incidental, reached no one, and served no communicative purpose. The only sounds — wind, rain, thunder — merely emphasized the vast emptiness.
If not for the miracle of cilia sprouting from our cell walls, life on Earth might have remained this way….
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If not for the miracle of cilia sprouting from our cell walls, life on Earth might have remained this way….
Los Angeles Review of Books
Jayson Greene reviews David George Haskell’s new book, “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction.”...
