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Hearing and Sound Communication in Small Animals: Evolutionary Adaptations to the Laws of Physics

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The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing

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A sense of hearing (including the hearing organs and central processing of auditory information) obviously evolved many times and independently in various groups of insects and vertebrates. Many of the features of the auditory systems reflect the evolutionary prehistory of the animals and thus follow their systematic positions. However, some features are consequences of the physical nature of sound waves, and we therefore find functionally analogous mechanisms in rather unrelated animals.

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  1. Axel Michelsen
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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Douglas B. Webster

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Arthur N. Popper

  3. Parmly Hearing Institute and Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Richard R. Fay

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Michelsen, A. (1992). Hearing and Sound Communication in Small Animals: Evolutionary Adaptations to the Laws of Physics. In: Webster, D.B., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (eds) The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2784-7_5

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