marlane_lenny@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTiny Ancient Teeth Have Solved a Major Mystery of Evolutionfreedomproject.pages.devexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down15
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minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down10·edit-23 months agoSo how do these bones in our ears help mammals survive? Not really seeing the link here. Weak article.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoYou don’t see how the sense of hearing is an evolutionary benefit?
minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoHearing existed before mammals. That’s the issue. How do bones being involved in hearing help?
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoIt’s much more sensitive, and much more suitable to hearing in air on land, as opposed to underwater in pre-mammalian amphibians. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243258/#Abs1title
minus-squareQuarterSwede@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThank you for that answer. This is what the original source was missing.
So how do these bones in our ears help mammals survive? Not really seeing the link here. Weak article.
You don’t see how the sense of hearing is an evolutionary benefit?
Hearing existed before mammals. That’s the issue. How do bones being involved in hearing help?
It’s much more sensitive, and much more suitable to hearing in air on land, as opposed to underwater in pre-mammalian amphibians.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243258/#Abs1title
Thank you for that answer. This is what the original source was missing.