A study shows that vestigial ear muscles activate when humans listen intently, mirroring how animals move their ears to ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

To test the functioning of the muscles, researchers recruited 20 people without hearing problems. They used electromyograph, ...

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