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Cretaceous fossil reveals a new pattern in mammalian middle ear evolution.
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- Middle ear innovation in Early Cretaceous eutherian mammals.Nature communications · 2023Article
- A new mammal from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for eutherian evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Monotreme middle ear is not primitive for Mammalia.National science review · 2021Article
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- Spatiotemporal evolution of the Jehol Biota: Responses to the North China craton destruction in the Early Cretaceous.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Evolution of the Mammalian Ear: An Evolvability Hypothesis.Evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- All ears about ancient mammals.Nature · 2019Article
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Abstract
The evolution of the mammalian middle ear is thought to provide an example of 'recapitulation'-the theory that the present embryological development of a species reflects its evolutionary history. Accumulating data from both developmental biology and palaeontology have suggested that the transformation of post-dentary jaw elements into cranial ear bones occurred several times in mammals
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