Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...
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Why Do Mammals Have Outer Ears? Scientists Are Getting Closer to Solving the MysteryTwo new studies offer insights into the evolution and development of external ears, which appear in humans and other mammals ...
The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...
New research has highlighted a fascinating link between human outer ears and the gills of ancient fish. Gene-editing ...
A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history.
The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in Nature from the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, this intricate coil of ...
This suggests that the outer ear evolved from cartilaginous gills, with the first elastic cartilage possibly arising in ancient marine invertebrates. This summary was automatically generated using ...
The scientists were able to incorporate enhancers that help form the elastic cartilage of the human outer ear into the genomes of zebrafish . Remarkably, the human outer ear enhancers were active ...
The scientists were able to incorporate enhancers that help form the elastic cartilage of the human outer ear into the genomes of zebrafish . Remarkably, the human outer ear enhancers were active ...
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