Sense of Hearing

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Organ Physiology

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Humans appear to have poor hearing, in comparison to other animals. Direct comparisons to other apes are very limited, and do not yet show definitive conclusions. It is interesting that mice with a human-like defect in the CMAH gene show an earlier age-dependent hearing loss, similar to humans.