Hearing and Sound Communication in Small Animals: Evolutionary Adaptations to the Laws of Physics

A sense of hearing (including the hearing organs and central processing of auditory information) obviously evolved many times and independently in various groups of insects and vertebrates. Many of the features of the auditory systems reflect the evolutionary prehistory of the animals and thus follow their systematic positions. However, some features are consequences of the physical nature of sound waves, and we therefore find functionally analogous mechanisms in rather unrelated animals.

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