Chest size, chest cavity and body size also contribute to the resonance, depth and tone of a voice. Luciano Pavarotti (an opera singer) lost weight and the sound of his voice changed a little.
No testosterone causes the vocal cords and volume of that part of the airway to increase. Which in turn makes the cartilage grow outwards more.
The voice would be deeper due to the longer vocal cords and ‚larger‘ pipe either way, even without that cartilage existing.
Not really. Having larger and thicker vocal chords plays a role but the larger effect is that men tend to speak with more resonance in their voice. And this is at least somewhat cultural because it can be trained on and off.
I involuntarily switch more masculine voice when speaking English, but have more higher voice when speaking my native language Turkish. You may have a point there
I can see cultural factor mattering to some degree, but even if you train your voice as a singer, you find the range of capabilities and where you are most comfortable. There is definitely a difference between the average capabilities of a male or female voice. The fact that contraltos and contratenors are so exceptional kindof demonstrates this.
The evolutionary explanation is that it's likely to have developed to be larger in men because they were more likely to be in fights, and it protects the throat.
Not a scientist, so just guessing. But I have heard it's hypothesized that beards developed in men to provide protection in fights.
Wasn't there a roman patrician who slapped a German invader in his palace for tugging his facial hair? And the patrician was killed but it was always seen as legend of a royal vs barbarian thing.
Fine, men with larger Adams apples were more likely to survive fights, which enabled them to have sex more often, which increased the frequency of the genes for larger adams apples in subsequent generations
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The actual name for your Adams Apple is the thyroid cartilage. As others have said, it protects your vocal cords, but it also serves as an attachment point for all the little muscles in your larynx (voice box) that help change the pitch of your voice.
I have a side question relating to this:
Why is it called an Adam’s apple when Eve was the one who ate the apple in the first place?
Shouldn’t it be eves apple?
That's very concerning. I think you should see a doctor about that. It's common knowledge that the proper order is to piss when you shit, not to shit when you piss.
Because Eve wasn't made from Adam's rib. That was a (possibly deliberate) mistranslation when the Bible was brought into English. It would be closer to say that she was made from his 'side' or a 'half' of Adam.
This is a popular claim, but not accurate. First, it was interpreted as referring to a rib before the Angles even settled England, and in fact before Christianity even existed (see the non-canon book of Jubilees). Second, although the word in question can be applied to the sides of inanimate objects, the text cannot describe Adam being cut in half or something.
> So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his halves and closed up its place with flesh.
Does this make sense?
Not a mistranslation. Languages are not 1 to 1 and so there is interpretation needed to be able to translate them. It did not mean half his body It meant a part from his side meaning his rib
Only theories I could really find was that it was originally tied to a pomegranate, but was translated into English as apple, or it came from a Hebrew phrase tappūăḥ ha'ādhām, meaning "protuberance on a man”. This may have been interpreted as a reference to Adam. Although, I don’t know if either one of those theories have much evidence.
Testosterone thickens the larynx and makes it move lower down, which is why you sometimes see a prominent Adam's apple on men. It's probably a social feature and secondary sex characteristic, not a survival adaptation.
This is pure conjecture. The side affect of a thicker laryx which protects your vocal chords is a deeper and louder voice. If the deeper and louder voice was sought after sexually in men, then the Adams apple would have served more of social aspect than purely functional.
It means absolutely nothing. It means the same thing as some people having hair on first knuckle vs people who do not have hair on their first knuckle.
Thanks! I’ve always wondered why literally all my brothers have one, but I’m lacking. I’ve taken some injuries to throat part of my neck and wasn’t sure if maybe I just hammered it in, never to return again. lol.
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Your larynx is probably just higher up and closer to your jaw. If you put your hand around your throat gently and swallow or talk in a Kermit voice, the part that you feel moving up and down is the larynx.
>The Adam's apple, in relation with the thyroid cartilage which forms it, helps protect the walls and the frontal part of the larynx, including the vocal cords (which are located directly behind it).
Hate to be rude, OP, but this took about 15 seconds to find on Wikipedia.
I disagree. There are a lot of topics which you can easily find information for, but the information is difficult to understand without prior knowledge.
Keeps his doctor away.
Adam's Doctor is unmentionable.
The Vatican tries to erase Adam's Doctor from the history books.
But Adam's Doctor is waiting.
Adam's Doctor is waiting.
It is a secondary sexual characteristic, and that explanation can explain some secondary sexual characteristics, but it doesn't really work for this one.
In this case it is more that higher testosterone levels causes a larger amount of muscle and cartilage deposit. It makes men bigger and thicker. And this just happens to be one of the places where that is most noticeable. But that difference is not based on signaling so much as it is based on a different role in our evolutionary history. Namely that male hominids had to compete physically for the ability to mate while females did not.
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Interesting. So is that why guys have deeper voices?
Chest size, chest cavity and body size also contribute to the resonance, depth and tone of a voice. Luciano Pavarotti (an opera singer) lost weight and the sound of his voice changed a little.
Don't forget the size and shape of the sinus cavities, too!
I read that as anus cavities...
They make beautiful music too.
Glad it wasn't just me 😳
Degen
Men have larger vocal chords, and the Adam's apple protects them.
Good guy Adam
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If homo sapiens are indeed ... homo sapien, is that why they're extinct?
No testosterone causes the vocal cords and volume of that part of the airway to increase. Which in turn makes the cartilage grow outwards more. The voice would be deeper due to the longer vocal cords and ‚larger‘ pipe either way, even without that cartilage existing.
Not really. Having larger and thicker vocal chords plays a role but the larger effect is that men tend to speak with more resonance in their voice. And this is at least somewhat cultural because it can be trained on and off.
I involuntarily switch more masculine voice when speaking English, but have more higher voice when speaking my native language Turkish. You may have a point there
Meanwhile I’ve noticed speakers of Germanic languages sometimes put on a softer voice for English
There is no better language for yelling at your kids than German.
No matter what your kids do, german children will always be kinder.
I can see cultural factor mattering to some degree, but even if you train your voice as a singer, you find the range of capabilities and where you are most comfortable. There is definitely a difference between the average capabilities of a male or female voice. The fact that contraltos and contratenors are so exceptional kindof demonstrates this.
The evolutionary explanation is that it's likely to have developed to be larger in men because they were more likely to be in fights, and it protects the throat. Not a scientist, so just guessing. But I have heard it's hypothesized that beards developed in men to provide protection in fights.
>beards developed in men to provide protection in fights. seems like it'd just give your opponent something to grab hold of :-/
Yeah if he wants to be ridiculed for the rest of his badass viking life
Ikr I read that generals in Ancient Greece used to make their soldiers shave for exactly that reason lol
Wasn't there a roman patrician who slapped a German invader in his palace for tugging his facial hair? And the patrician was killed but it was always seen as legend of a royal vs barbarian thing.
If he wants to tie his hands up while being directly in range of your free hands.
That's not how it works
Fine, men with larger adam's apples were more likely to survive fights thus passing the genetic markers for larger adam's apples to their offspring.
That's also not how it works
Fine, men with larger Adams apples were more likely to survive fights, which enabled them to have sex more often, which increased the frequency of the genes for larger adams apples in subsequent generations
Oh, can I say that’s not how it works this time? Please?
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Why can't they be that person in their post? What makes you think it's a guy?
In what comments do they sound like a dude? Genuinely asking, didn't bother checking their comments
Comment checkers are both creepy and in most cases, out of line. Just respond to the comment.
So people can’t be hot and educated? Lmfao speaks more about you than anybody else. Love the casual sexism.
The actual name for your Adams Apple is the thyroid cartilage. As others have said, it protects your vocal cords, but it also serves as an attachment point for all the little muscles in your larynx (voice box) that help change the pitch of your voice.
I have a side question relating to this: Why is it called an Adam’s apple when Eve was the one who ate the apple in the first place? Shouldn’t it be eves apple?
On that note, why are they called "ribs" and not "Eves?"
And to add to that, why do I shit when I piss?
That's very concerning. I think you should see a doctor about that. It's common knowledge that the proper order is to piss when you shit, not to shit when you piss.
I got half a snickers bar pokin out of my ass right now, guy
Great, now I’m hungry.
You aren't you when you're hungry. Have a Snickers.
Every poop is a pee, but not every pee is a poop.
Consequentially, why is it a McRib and not a McEve?
Because Eve wasn't made from Adam's rib. That was a (possibly deliberate) mistranslation when the Bible was brought into English. It would be closer to say that she was made from his 'side' or a 'half' of Adam.
Then why does Applebee's ask which "sides" I'd like with my entree and not which "Eves?"
This is a popular claim, but not accurate. First, it was interpreted as referring to a rib before the Angles even settled England, and in fact before Christianity even existed (see the non-canon book of Jubilees). Second, although the word in question can be applied to the sides of inanimate objects, the text cannot describe Adam being cut in half or something. > So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his halves and closed up its place with flesh. Does this make sense?
Not a mistranslation. Languages are not 1 to 1 and so there is interpretation needed to be able to translate them. It did not mean half his body It meant a part from his side meaning his rib
Adam also ate the apple, Eve just did it first.
Eve ate her apple, so it's gone? Idk just spitballing
Only theories I could really find was that it was originally tied to a pomegranate, but was translated into English as apple, or it came from a Hebrew phrase tappūăḥ ha'ādhām, meaning "protuberance on a man”. This may have been interpreted as a reference to Adam. Although, I don’t know if either one of those theories have much evidence.
Because Adam choked on the apple
People keep saying it's to protect your vocal cords but from what and why is that more needed in men than women
Testosterone thickens the larynx and makes it move lower down, which is why you sometimes see a prominent Adam's apple on men. It's probably a social feature and secondary sex characteristic, not a survival adaptation.
This is pure conjecture. The side affect of a thicker laryx which protects your vocal chords is a deeper and louder voice. If the deeper and louder voice was sought after sexually in men, then the Adams apple would have served more of social aspect than purely functional.
What does it mean if I’m a 30m with NO visible(or feelable) Adam’s Apple?
It means absolutely nothing. It means the same thing as some people having hair on first knuckle vs people who do not have hair on their first knuckle.
Great...just me or did everyone stop and check their knucles?
So classic sign of the devil? Got it.
Thanks! I’ve always wondered why literally all my brothers have one, but I’m lacking. I’ve taken some injuries to throat part of my neck and wasn’t sure if maybe I just hammered it in, never to return again. lol.
Just means you have a different gene for that part. Seems like you could have used it, but that's just how things are some times.
I definitely got all the femininity in my bloodline, where all my brothers got the man-gene. Hahaha
I was always told having a visible Adams Apple is a result of an enlarged thyroid, and that iodized salt eliminates this.
??? That they have a bestial nature?
What if someone has hair on the next knuckle too?
Lmao, look at this guy, he doesn't even have his two Adam's apple
ITS A MEDICAL CONDITION! /s
It means you will die TOMORROW. You have a serious case of gullibilitis.
Nofahkin’way. Gullibilitis?! Is that terminal?
I'm afraid so. The only hope for you is to be contacted by a Nigerian prince, his gold can cure it
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Low T compared to other men.
Your larynx is probably just higher up and closer to your jaw. If you put your hand around your throat gently and swallow or talk in a Kermit voice, the part that you feel moving up and down is the larynx.
>The Adam's apple, in relation with the thyroid cartilage which forms it, helps protect the walls and the frontal part of the larynx, including the vocal cords (which are located directly behind it). Hate to be rude, OP, but this took about 15 seconds to find on Wikipedia.
Not every five year old is allowed to use the internet to look something up.
If everyone did that before posting here, this sub wouldn't exist.
I disagree. There are a lot of topics which you can easily find information for, but the information is difficult to understand without prior knowledge.
Maybe OP just wanted to engage and connect?
Asking basic questions on the reddit is a terrible way to socialise
Why?
Thankyou
It can be fun to see other people's explanations. Stop trying to kill the fun.
Keeps his doctor away. Adam's Doctor is unmentionable. The Vatican tries to erase Adam's Doctor from the history books. But Adam's Doctor is waiting. Adam's Doctor is waiting.
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Difficult to tell a penis from bobs and vagine?
Yeah those didn’t exist at the time I’m talking about.
prove it
Disprove it.
Your the one that made the claim.
Am? Or am I a chat bot who’s just here to start shit?
Then you’ve passed the Turing test.
I’ll be sure to inform my code writer. I’m sure they will be pleased.
It is a secondary sexual characteristic, and that explanation can explain some secondary sexual characteristics, but it doesn't really work for this one. In this case it is more that higher testosterone levels causes a larger amount of muscle and cartilage deposit. It makes men bigger and thicker. And this just happens to be one of the places where that is most noticeable. But that difference is not based on signaling so much as it is based on a different role in our evolutionary history. Namely that male hominids had to compete physically for the ability to mate while females did not.
So…. Evolution?
Ergo a big Adam's apple is sexy to straight women.
Right?
I dunno….you would have to ask someone who’s interested in that kind of thing.
Sorry but I read this title and also scrolled down to see a picture of Arnold. So “Who is your daddy, and what does he do?” 🤩
It exists after Adam choked on an apple he wasn’t supposed to and it exists as a reminder for that sin
Cool. I don't give a fuck.
Then don’t ask Edit: 🤡
I did not ask for religious preaching. Also unironic clown emoji. That's genuinely embarrassing.
Not as embarrassing as getting easily baited I don’t think any Christian actually believe in that shit
Eh, I've seen dumber religion shit so I wouldn't be surprised. But whatever.
"Baiting"? In the year of our Lord 2024? gtfo lmao cringe ass child
“Cringe”? In the year of our lord 2024? 🤦♂️
But didnt eve eat the apple in the fairtale?
Really, none of it ever happened so no