The origin of terrestrial hearing

Jennifer A. Clack ()
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Jennifer A. Clack: Jennifer A. Clack is at the University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.

Nature, 2015, vol. 519, issue 7542, 168-169

Abstract: A study of the African lungfish reveals that it has a rudimentary ability to detect pressure waves caused by sound. The finding expands our knowledge of how hearing evolved in early tetrapods, the first vertebrates to have limbs and digits.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/519168a

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