A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
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A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
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Re: A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
#2ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
Re: A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
#3> When the scientists genetically inhibited lower jaw development in both fetal mice and chickens, the mice formed neither eardrums nor ear canals. In contrast, the birds grew two upper jaws
> "kiill meeeee"
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#4"Comes to an end"
Bold words. While this demonstrates that the locus of tympanic formation differs across vertebrates, the mechanism (fenestration and ossicles from mandibles) apparently remains the same - either way, I can't see how this is "case closed".
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#5> Hear, hear for genetics!
Wow, those Japanese researchers can now sure beat their drums about this research.
What a ... jaw-dropping result.
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#6This research seems barbaric.
Re: A 100-Year Debate About the Eardrum Comes to an End
#7"Comes to an end" Bold words. While this demonstrates that the locus of tympanic formation differs across vertebrates, the mechanism (fenestration and ossicles from mandibles) apparently remains the same - either way, I can't see how this is "case closed".
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#8This research seems barbaric.
Aborting a chicken fetus for science seems a lot less barbaric then raising and killing animals as an unnecessary food source.
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