Disproportionate cochlear length in genus Homo shows a high phylogenetic signal during apes' hearing evolution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Braga, J ^a,b   Loubes, J M ^c   Descouens, D ^a   Dumoncel, J ^a   Thackeray, J F ^b   Kahn, J L ^d   De Beer, F ^f   Riberon, A ^a   Hoffman, K ^e   Balaresque, P ^a   Gilissen, E ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NUCLEAR ENERGY CORPORATION   (South Africa)

^f ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CATARRHINI; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR LENGTH; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; FOSSIL HOMINID; GORILLA; HEARING; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PARANTHROPUS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VESTIBULE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA; PARANTHROPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CATARRHINI; COCHLEA; FOSSILS; HEARING; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84939191049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127780     Document Type: Article

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