{"id":140892,"date":"2022-06-21T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/419-million-year-old-chinese-fossil-shows-human-middle-ear-evolved-from-fish-gills"},"modified":"2022-06-21T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:29:09","slug":"419-million-year-old-chinese-fossil-shows-human-middle-ear-evolved-from-fish-gills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/419-million-year-old-chinese-fossil-shows-human-middle-ear-evolved-from-fish-gills","title":{"rendered":"419-Million-Year-Old Chinese Fossil Shows Human Middle Ear Evolved From Fish Gills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/419-million-year-old-chinese-fossil-shows-human-middle-ear-evolved-from-fish-gills2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human middle ear\u2014which houses three tiny, vibrating bones\u2014is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Embryonic and fossil evidence proves that the human middle ear evolved from the spiracle of fishes. However, the origin of the vertebrate spiracle has long been an unsolved mystery in vertebrate evolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese fossils provided the first anatomical and fossil evidence for a vertebrate spiracle originating from fish gills.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human middle ear\u2014which houses three tiny, vibrating bones\u2014is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. Embryonic and fossil evidence proves that the human middle ear evolved from the spiracle of fishes. However, the origin of the vertebrate spiracle has long been an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}