Disproportionate Cochlear Length in Genus Homo Shows a High Phylogenetic Signal during Apes’ Hearing Evolution

• J. Braga ,

  * E-mail: jose.braga@univ-tlse3.fr

  Affiliations Hominid Evolutionary Biology, AMIS-UMR 5288 CNRS, University of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  ⨯
• J-M. Loubes,

  Affiliation Statistics and Probabilities Team, Institute of Mathematics of Toulouse, UMR 5219 CNRS-Université de Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France

  ⨯
• D. Descouens,

  Affiliation Hominid Evolutionary Biology, AMIS-UMR 5288 CNRS, University of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France

  ⨯
• J. Dumoncel,

  Affiliation Hominid Evolutionary Biology, AMIS-UMR 5288 CNRS, University of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France

  ⨯
• J. F. Thackeray,

  Affiliation Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  ⨯
• J-L. Kahn,

  Affiliation Institut d'Anatomie Normale et Pathologique, Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

  ⨯
• F. de Beer,

  Affiliation South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, Pelindaba, North West Province, South Africa

  ⨯
• A. Riberon,

  Affiliation Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174 CNRS, University of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France

  ⨯
• K. Hoffman,

  Affiliation South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, Pelindaba, North West Province, South Africa

  ⨯
• P. Balaresque,

  Affiliation Hominid Evolutionary Biology, AMIS-UMR 5288 CNRS, University of Toulouse (Paul Sabatier), Toulouse, France

  ⨯
• E. Gilissen

  Affiliation Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium and Laboratory of Histology and Neuropathology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  ⨯