The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

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Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source.

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

To test the functioning of the muscles, researchers recruited 20 people without hearing problems. They used electromyograph, ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we listen intently, according to new research.

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...