The difficult - to - obtain ancient DNA was extracted from
a tiny ear bone — called the petrous — by a team led by Losif Lazaridis and David Reich, two population geneticists at Harvard Medical school.
Not exact matches
An
ear infection is most often a bacterial or viral infection that affects the middle
ear, the air - filled space behind the eardrum that contains the
tiny vibrating
bones of the
ear.
These vibrations are transferred to the cochlea in the inner
ear via three
tiny bones.
Hearing works partly through the transmission of vibrations from the
ear drum to the cochlea, the sensory organ of hearing, via three
tiny bones in the middle
ear known as ossicles.
His group showed that the petrous
bone, containing the
tiny inner
ear, harbors 100 times more DNA than other ancient human remains, offering a huge increase in the amount of genetic material available for analysis.
Tiny middle
ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies
Sound waves travel through the
ear canal before reaching the eardrum and the
tiny bones of the middle
ear.
The tympanic membrane, an air - filled chamber containing three
tiny bones (hammer, anvil and stirrup), along with the eustachian tube (an air - filled tube connecting to the junction of the nose and mouth) form the middle
ear.
The canine
ear has an intricate structure consisting of tissue, nerves, cartilage and
tiny bones that work together with the brain to conduct and interpret sound.
The middle
ear contains the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and the
tiny auditory
bones that lie just behind it.
Anything that injures the
ear canal, ruptures the
ear drum or interferes with the
tiny bones inside the
ear can contribute to deafness, including infections, tumors, waxy build - up, repeated exposure to gunfire and nerve degeneration associated with old age.
Tiny bones in our
ears collect sound vibrations and send those to the brain for processing; plants come from seeds growing in sun, water and soil; we are floating in a huge dark space spinning and circling the sun.