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He’s pulling really hard, and it’s right on my eardrum. A massive clump of dog hair. And he said it looked like somebody had put dog hair in my ear and then just like stuffed it down the canal.

Evolutionary biologists have long wondered why the eardrum—the membrane that relays sound waves to the inner ear—looks in humans and other mammals remarkably like the one in reptiles and birds.