Humans Have More Distinctive Hearing Than Animals, Study Shows

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Wed, 04/02/2008 - 22:00

Do humans hear better than animals? It is known that various species of land and water-based living creatures are capable of hearing some lower and higher frequencies than humans are capable of detecting.

However, scientists have now for the first time demonstrated how the reactions of single neurons give humans the capability of detecting fine differences in frequencies better than animals.

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