The evolution of vertebrate hearing is of considerable interest in the
hearing community. However, there has never been a volume that has
focused on the paleontological evidence for the evolution of hearing and
the ear, especially from the perspective of some of the leading
paleontologists and evolutionary biologists in the world. Thus, this
volume is totally unique, and takes a perspective that has never been
taken before. It brings to the fore some of the most recent discoveries
among fossil taxa, which have demonstrated the sort of detailed
information that can be derived from the fossil record, illuminating the
evolutionary pathways this sensory system has taken and the diversity it
had achieved.