Ear Lobes

When family members and relatives get together, interesting discussions and observations are often brought up which previously had not received any attention. While on our recent trip to Mexico, my niece (who once called me weird) made the comment that no one in the Denney family had ear lobes. We compared all our ears and sure enough, we were all minus ear lobes. I pondered the realization of this strange physical phenomenon and began researching to perhaps uncover the origin. I googled, "Why Denneys have no ear lobes." In just a few seconds the computer screen was flooded with historical information of every kind. To summarize, many thousands of years ago in prehistoric England, members of the Denney tribe were extremely slow of foot and could barely keep up with a sloth. Ear lobes, which created wind resistance, gradually began to shrink in size through the process of adaptation in order to make their ears more streamlined and thus better hunters. Personally, I can live without ear lobes but it has been a source of major disappointment for my sisters as they have been unable to wear earrings and, worse yet, their old boyfriends had no ear lobes to nibble on.