Gorilla genomics and hearing evolution
The Nature News story on the gorilla genome includes this section relevant to the evolution of hearing in gorillas and humans:
The Nature News story on the gorilla genome includes this section relevant to the evolution of hearing in gorillas and humans:
This lecture uses the auditory system to illustrate Mendelian inheritance. First the earlobes – a classic example in teaching laboratories, where attached ea...
Natalie Angier writes about the middle ear of a Mesozoic mammal: “In Mammals, a Complex Journey to the Middle Ear”.
Thanks to a reader for pointing out the mention of my work in this Natalie Angier article in the NY Times. It’s about variations in human hearing, and refere...
I’m doing a little literature review this week on Middle Pleisocene postcrania. On a somewhat tangential topic, the description of the Sima de los Huesos cer...
Language Log links to that Science News piece about my work, with a lot of interesting commentary. An old college friend saw it and let me know – it’s amazin...
Bruce Bower has a really nice feature article in Science News about my work on hearing and recent selection:
A story in Science News by writer Tia Ghose, about the hearing capacities of the Atapuerca/Sima de los Huesos people, has been making the rounds, including S...
A couple of months ago, the Washington Post ran an article by Michael Chorost, who has written a book about his experience with a cochlear implant. I meant t...