{"id":17595,"date":"2020-11-09T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2020-11-14T01:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T05:13:59","slug":"what-does-the-middle-ear-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-does-the-middle-ear-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the Middle Ear Do? Hearing and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does the middle ear do and what is the purpose of the middle ear? How did it develop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The middle ear is a bone. According to Neil Shubin in <em>Your Inner Fish<\/em>, the middle ear shows a clear connection to our fish ancestors, especially sharks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what does the middle ear do? Keep reading to find out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Does The Middle Ear Do? <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our middle ear bones betray our connection with sharks and other bony fish. But what does the middle ear do, and what is the purpose of the middle ear? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mammals have three middle ear bones, reptiles and amphibians have one, and fish don\u2019t have any. Our three middle ear bones are the malleus, incus, and stapes, and they develop from the gill arches. The malleus and incus develop from the first arch, while the stapes develops from the second arch. Now that you know how the middle ear works, it&#8217;s time to ask: what does the middle ear do? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Malleus and Incus<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1827, a German anatomist studying mammal and reptile skulls discovered that two of the ear bones in mammals, the malleus and incus, looked like parts of the jaw in reptiles, indicating that the gill arch that formed part of the jaw in reptiles also formed ear bones in mammals. Thus, parts of reptiles and mammals were the same. This was pre-Darwin when they had no concept of evolution, but the implication was that mammals evolved from reptiles.&nbsp;This can also help answer the question &#8220;what does the middle ear do?&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1913, a paleontologist connected the dots between:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The theory that the malleus and incus bones moved from the jaw in reptiles to the ear in mammals.<\/li><li>The discovery that dog-sized South African reptiles with mammal-like teeth also had bones at the back of the jaw resembling mammal ear bones. A series of fossils of the evolving reptile showed that these bones in the jaw got progressively smaller over time and moved toward the ear.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the malleus and incus in mammals evolved from reptile jawbones. So mammals ended up with three middle-ear bones (remember, reptiles and other animals had only one). Having three enabled mammals to hear higher-frequency sounds. Improved hearing was developed by repurposing bones originally used by reptiles for chewing. This helped answer the question &#8220;what does the middle ear do?&#8221; and why. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Stapes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While two bones in our middle ear came from reptiles, the third ear bone (the stapes) came from fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted earlier, the second arch produces the stapes in mammals; the second arch also produces a large bone (hyomandibula) connecting the upper jaw to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-the-regions-of-the-brain\/\">brain area<\/a> of fish and sharks. 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