Assertion: stapes | /r/CapableOf | reflect its older status
Facets:
value: phylogenetically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The stapes appears to be evolutionarily the most conservative bone among the auditory ossicles, perhaps reflecting its phylogenetically older status (1), and the anatomical variation in the stapes among extant hominids does seem to mainly reflect size (rather than shape) differences.