You will obviously be familiar with the fact that human beings grow physically from the moment we are born. Even after we stop growing in height, our ears and nose continue to just keep on going until the day we die.
However, it’s not all like that in our body.
You would expect that, as we get bigger, we need everything in our body to increase in size as we develop and, for the most part, that is true. The only part of the body where that doesn’t apply is our eyes because, rather surprisingly, they stay the same size from the moment we are born.
So, when you next see a baby and are amazed at the size of its eyes staring back at you, just remember that they are not going to get any bigger. It is just down to our head getting bigger that it appears as if our eyes adjust accordingly.