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Our outer ears may have come from ancient fish gills, scientists discover
Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...
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Our Ears Share a Common Ancestry with Fish Gills
The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...
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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.5 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...
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An earful of gill: Evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear
A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...
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Human teeth traced to fish scales, Cambridge scientists say
During early evolution of jawed vertebrates, dermal denticles were transferred from the skins of primitive fish to their mouth. In the millennia that followed, the tiny appendages went on to ...