Niin, piti eilen vielä tuohon Linjalla kommenttiin liittyen nostaa tämä tuosta linkkaamastani jutusta:
" Another mystery is why we enjoy music so much—and this is one of the questions that Nicholas Humphrey has asked in the EDGE forum. Music has such powerful emotional impact, and nobody has ever found a good survival function for it. The very first serious conference on the evolution of music only took place last year at a wonderful little town called Fiesole, Italy, in the hills overlooking Florence. It became abundantly clear to me at this conference that there were amazing parallels between human music and bird song, and whale song, and all the other complicated acoustic signals that animals send to each other-even gibbon song. The most musical apes are gibbons who do wonderful duets, long calls that they give to each other, especially to their sexual mates. Wherever you're looking in nature, if an animal is producing a complex acoustic signal it's almost certainly a courtship signal, it's almost certainly involved in sexual selection. We know this for bird song, we know it for whale song, and we know it for gibbon song."
...pistää miettimään miksi muistutamme (gibbonien lisäksi) nisäkkäistä pariutumisessa niin paljon lintuja...
