Humans Lost the Ability to Swivel Their Ears—But These Vestigial Muscles Still Twitch
Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we listen intently, according to new research.
Scientists Thought This Ear Muscle Was Useless – New Research Shows It Still Works!
The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...
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Study discovers that ear muscles wiggle to help people listen better
Study first author Andreas Schröer, of Saarland University in Germany, said: "There are three large muscles which connect the auricle to the skull and scalp and are ... already shown that the largest ...
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Effects and Predictors of Shoulder Muscle Massage for Patients With Posterior Shoulder Tightness
[7–9] Specifically, several researchers [10–13] hypothesized that the stiffness of specific muscles (rotator cuff) may contribute to posterior ... superior humeral head translations on the ...