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Title: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: TylerDurden on October 16, 2015, 11:48:46 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3274035/Did-ancestors-ears-like-DOGS-Defunct-muscles-head-suggest-moved-response-sound.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3274035/Did-ancestors-ears-like-DOGS-Defunct-muscles-head-suggest-moved-response-sound.html)
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: A_Tribe_Called_Paleo on October 19, 2015, 04:16:10 am
Is this suggesting we evolved from dogs...
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: eveheart on October 19, 2015, 04:31:41 am
Is this suggesting we evolved from dogs...

No. If you are joking, use an appropriate emoticon. If you are serious, re-take your high-school science class and pay close attention.
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: A_Tribe_Called_Paleo on October 19, 2015, 07:59:35 am
No. If you are joking, use an appropriate emoticon. If you are serious, re-take your high-school science class and pay close attention.

I didn't even open the article yet, i was asking a question before i possibly wasted any of my time... you should seek some anger management therapy...
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: eveheart on October 19, 2015, 12:36:10 pm
I didn't even open the article yet, i was asking a question before i possibly wasted any of my time... you should seek some anger management therapy...

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as angry. I didn't understand your reply, but it makes sense in light of the fact that you didn't read the article, which was an interesting tidbit about a vestigial human muscle and neural circuits. Nothing earthshaking. The reference to dogs and cats was only to describe the type of ear movement that could be accomplished by that muscle.
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: TylerDurden on October 20, 2015, 02:01:07 pm
What I find interesting is that they state that a few modern humans still have the ability to, er," swivel" their ears, to some extent....
Title: Re: Pre-Hominid ancestors 25 million years ago had swivel ears like dogs and cats
Post by: eveheart on October 20, 2015, 09:22:44 pm
What I find interesting is that they state that a few modern humans still have the ability to, er," swivel" their ears, to some extent....

When my second son was about ten years old, he excitedly demonstrated his ability to wiggle his ears. Apparently, he had been practicing for weeks. He had learned to isolate those ear-wiggling muscles so that nothing else on his face moved. He was very pleased with himself.