Palaeoanthropologist – Binghamton University Research News https://discovere.binghamton.edu Insights and Innovations From Binghamton University Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:38:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Hearing changes could be ancient in the human line https://discovere.binghamton.edu/research-in-the-news/hearing-5298.html Thu, 16 May 2013 12:22:23 +0000 http://discovere.binghamton.edu/?p=5298 A Binghamton University study of two ancient hominins from South Africa suggests that changes in the shape and size of the middle ear occurred early in our evolution. Such alterations could have profoundly changed what our ancestors could hear — and perhaps how they could communicate, Nature reports this week.

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