A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.

"The development of the inner ear structures is known to be under very tight genetic control, since they are fully formed at the time of birth. This makes variation in the semicircular canals an ...

An analysis of the semicircular canals in Neanderthal ears reveals evidence of a 'bottleneck' event, leading to a reduction ...

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

and Mercedes Conde-Valverde from the Cátedra de Otoacústica Evolutiva de HM Hospitales y la Universidad de Alcalá led a team of researchers who analyzed the semicircular canals — the fluid-filled ...

Patulous eustachian tube (PET) occurs when the eustachian tube, which connects the middle ear to the back of the throat, ...

The symptoms of Meniere’s disease occur when fluid builds up in the labyrinth of the inner ear. The labyrinth consists of semicircular canals that help regulate balance, and the cochlea ...

Motion of the head causes fluid to slip in the semicircular canals. The moving fluid stimulates patches of sensory cells, cristae, conveying information about position and movement. In the evolution ...

Examination of semicircular canals of ear shows Neanderthals experienced 'bottleneck' event where physical and genetic variation was lost. A new study by an international team of scholars ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

measured the morphological diversity in the semicircular canals, structures of the inner ear responsible for our sense of balance, in two exceptional collections of human fossils from the sites of ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research ...