Mic with a more human-ear-like response to volume dynamics?

I was just thinking about how a lot of compression serves to make recorded sound resemble more what our ear hears with regards to loudness, since microphones translate songs differently to how our ears perceive it. So that got me thinking about if it would be possible to make a mic that more closely mimics the way the ear works. I am positive there's absolutely zero chance I'm the first person to think about that, but googling didn't turn up any useful information. So does anyone know if this is a thing, or is it one of those things that people tried and realized it was just easier and better to use a compressor, or what?