• DOI:10.1038/nature02720
Corpus ID: 4372872

Eocene evolution of whale hearing

@article{Nummela2004EoceneEO,
  title={Eocene evolution of whale hearing},
  author={S. Nummela and J. G. Thewissen and S. Bajpai and S. Hussain and K. Kumar},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={430},
  pages={776-778}
}

S. Nummela, J. G. Thewissen, +2 authors K. Kumar

Published 2004

Biology, Medicine

Nature

The origin of whales (order Cetacea) is one of the best-documented examples of macroevolutionary change in vertebrates. As the earliest whales became obligately marine, all of their organ systems adapted to the new environment. The fossil record indicates that this evolutionary transition took less than 15 million years, and that different organ systems followed different evolutionary trajectories. Here we document the evolutionary changes that took place in the sound transmission mechanism of… CONTINUE READING

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