Who’s doing what and where about the cochlea- Jonathan Ashmore (p.30)

A quick, unfair test of any physiology text book is to open it at the chapter on hearing and see how the hair cells are drawn. (Let me remind you that hair cells are the ear’s sensory cells. They get their name from the collection of stereocilia or hairs on the cell’s apical surface). Do the cells look on the skinny side? Do they look more like fly-whisks than real cells? Do they have only two stereocilia? Are there five rows of hair cells? Yes? Cross the book off the list!