It turns out the human ear got off to a fishy start. Literally. A fascinating new study reveals that the mammalian outer ear has its evolutionary roots in the gills of ancient fish. This surprising ...

The BM is a soft-tissue structure that categorizes different acoustic vibrations based on their frequency and produces a spatial frequency map in the cochlea. Since the late 1990s, researchers have ...

Over the next three to six months, the structure developed into cartilage containing tissue that closely replicated the ear's anatomical features, including the helical rim, the "anti-helix" rim ...

More information: Alexander Stoessel et al. Morphology and function of Neandertal and modern human ear ossicles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605881113 ...

Grown To Order Microtia is a condition in which the external ear structures are underdeveloped, on one or both sides. Credit: Klaus D. Peter, CC-BY-SA-3.0 ...

More information: Hao Li et al, Unlocking the human inner ear for therapeutic intervention, Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22203-2 ...