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Evolution of hearing
Professor Brian Cox explains the evolution of the mammalian ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes. He uses a flip-book animation to show how the jaw bones of basal reptiles migrated back into the skull to form the tiny bones of the middle ear.
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