If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

To learn more about these small ear muscles, Hackley and colleagues recruited 20 participants with normal hearing and attached electrodes to their scalp to track electrical activity in their superior ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

The muscles that attach onto the hyoid bone include ... and avoiding choking. Al Julaih GH, Menezes RG. Anatomy, head and neck, hyoid bone. StatPearls. Zhang Z. Mechanics of human voice production and ...

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This is because they carry a larger load transmitted from the top of the head down to the lower spine. Another reason why the lumbar bones are larger than the cervical and thoracic vertebrae is that ...

For every 1% increase in fatty muscle fraction, there was a 2% increase in the risk of CMD and a 7% increased risk of future serious heart disease, regardless of other known risk factors and body ...