What is the evolutionary significance of the auditory ossicles in the mammalian ear?
Over the course of the evolution of mammals, one lower and one upper jaw bone (the articular and quadrate) lost their purpose in the jaw joint and were put to new use in the middle ear, connecting to the existing stapes bone and forming a chain of three bones (collectively called the ossicles) which transmit…
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