{"id":3632,"date":"2012-11-16T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2012-11-16T10:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:03:48","slug":"convergent-evolution-of-hearing-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2012\/11\/16\/convergent-evolution-of-hearing-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergent Evolution of Hearing (Science)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/338\/6109\/894.short\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/338\/6109\/894.short<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>How do human ears work? The textbook explanation starts by dividing the  ear into three separate anatomical entities that have                         equally separate functions in converting  airborne sound (pressure waves outside the ear) into fluid-borne  traveling waves                         inside the ear, a conversion that makes  long-distance hearing on dry land possible (<em>1<\/em>, <em>2<\/em>). On page 968 of this issue, Montealegre-Z. <em>et al.<\/em> (<em>3<\/em>) show that although the hearing organ of a rainforest insect looks very different from a human ear, it can be divided into                         the same three functional entities, providing evidence for convergent evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/338\/6109\/894.short&gt; How do human ears work? The textbook explanation starts by dividing the ear into three separate anatomical entities that have equally separate functions in converting airborne sound (pressure waves outside the ear) into fluid-borne traveling waves inside the ear, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/2012\/11\/16\/convergent-evolution-of-hearing-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5856,1],"tags":[8788,12726,7050],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anth-201","category-uncategorized","tag-evolution","tag-human","tag-physical-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/briansblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}