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How do ear canals help us with hearing such as directional audio when they cause sound waves to bounce around? Or rather, why wouldn't sound waves hitting our ear drum in a more "natural" way as in no ears to distort the sound waves be the better way?

by /u/Joe30174 in /r/askscience

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