| human ears grow throughout the entire lifetime according to complicated and sexually dimorphic patterns--conclusions from a cross-sectional analysis. | in most of its anatomical constituents, e.g. in the helix, etc., the external human ear is homologous to that of all primates and scandentia (tree shrews). thus, its genetic basis is largely older than 60 mio yrs. based upon the observation of lifelong growth of the ear (e.g. montacer-kuhssary 1959), we aimed to elucidate the growth of the human ear in a more detailed way throughout life and in both sexes. on standardized photographical material collected randomly in berlin (germany), we measure ... | 2007 | 18196763 |