{"id":17559,"date":"2025-01-31T08:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/a-neural-fossil-human-ears-try-to-move-when-listening-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:37:18","slug":"a-neural-fossil-human-ears-try-to-move-when-listening-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/a-neural-fossil-human-ears-try-to-move-when-listening-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A neural fossil\u2019: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that muscles move to orient ears toward sound source in vestigial reaction<\/p>\n<p>Wiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>Ear movement is crucial in many animals, not least in helping them focus their attention on particular noises and work out which direction they are coming from.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/jan\/31\/neural-fossil-human-ears-move-when-listening-scientists-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3e1d8eb223d646a31459c7935aac883117feab5a\/0_515_1414_848\/master\/1414.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=da15022724d2b94d10b3a7b0bad8316b\" title=\"\u2018A neural fossil\u2019: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say\" \/>Researchers found that muscles move to orient ears toward sound source in vestigial reaction<br \/>\nWiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found.<br \/>\nEar movement is crucial in many animals, not least in helping them focus their attention on particular noises and work out which direction they are coming from. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that muscles move to orient ears toward sound source in vestigial reaction Wiggling your ears might be more of a pub party piece than a survival skill, but humans still try to prick up their ears when listening hard, researchers have found. Ear movement is crucial in many animals, not least in helping &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/a-neural-fossil-human-ears-try-to-move-when-listening-scientists-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A neural fossil\u2019: human ears try to move when listening, scientists say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}