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Hearing provides a special case of a general problem in comparative neurology, indeed in evolutionary biology broadly: what has evolution wrought? What varieties of differences between taxa have evolved-from species to phyla?
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Bullock, T.H. (1992). Comparisons of Major and Minor Taxa Reveal Two Kinds of Differences: “Lateral” Adaptations and “Vertical” Changes in Grade. 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_2
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