Music in Human Evolution

Melting Asphalt ^ | 10/15/2015 | Kevin Simler

[sparklite2]

I just finished the strangest, most disconcerting little book. It's called Why Do People Sing?: Music in Human Evolution by Joseph Jordania.

If the title hasn't already piqued your interest, its thesis surely will. The thesis is wild, bold, and original, but makes an eerie amount of sense. If true, it would be a revolution — and I don't use the term lightly — in how we understand the evolution of music, cooperation, warfare, and even religion.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBNoFcvcWI

[Bellflower]

Music: Created by God and for God.
Music devolution done through Satanic influence to use for drawing people away from God.

[sparklite2]

Heh.

[sparklite2]

First we rocked, and then we rolled!

[dfwgator]

Then there's "Devolution"

[cornelis]

removing the body should be no more sacred than taking out the trash. Chimpanzees, for instance, can perceive when another chimp passes away (and mourn), but they soon lose interest in the body. But if Jordania is right, it's no coincidence that death rituals are intimately bound up with collective identity, because they're two parts of the same system.

The author hasn't evolved much. Richard Weaver stated that art is to keep us from being assimilated with nature.

[SunkenCiv]

KEYWORDS: neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals

[BlueLancer]

"You see I'm a musicologist. I was just testing this specimen for inherent tonal qualities. I have this theory about early man's musical relationship to igneous rock formations."

[Hot Tabasco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBNoFcvcWI

Wow, that finally explains the emergence of Disco..........

[SunkenCiv]

• Earliest music instruments found (42,000 year-old flutes)
• Hominids' Cave Rave-Ups May Link Music And Speech
• Science Journal: Caveman Crooners May Have Aided Early Human Life
• Neanderthal Flute
• Neanderthals Sang Like Sopranos
• High notes of the singing Neanderthals

[Reeses]

In the general case, bipedalism results in slower sprinting speeds, even if it increases efficiency (allowing us to walk/run for longer stretches).

The biggest advantage of bipedalism is it enables us to carry a lethal weapon. That truth isn't compatible with modern libtardism.

There's always the mate-selection hypothesis, of course.

Another subject libtards are uncomfortable with is the child-selection hypothesis. Cosmetic features such as blond hair, blue eyes, lighter skin are not driven by men choosing mates, but by mothers choosing their favorite children. It's hard to imagine in modern times but for most of human evolution mothers had limited resources and had to carefully choose which children to invest those resources in, else her genes didn't get passed on. Young children are lighter skinned than adults, and European babies are more blond and blue eyed. That's the big clue it was mothers child selection preferences rather than mate selection.

[blam]

"There is an Australian rugby team that takes what the army did up to the next level. It’s great to watch."

That's New Zealand's rugby team, the world champion All Blacks team. They do that performance before each rugby game.

I've recently seen a US high school football team do the 'Haka' dance before a game.

The Haka has its origins with the Maori People of New Zealand. At one time, the Maori would eat you.

[Bigg Red]

Your hypothesis about a mother’s choices regarding which children to keep alive does not seem to make sense from the standpoint of passing on the mother’s genes.

If she were choosing specimens exhibiting the best chances for survival, how would light skin or light hair indicate durability? The concept of selecting for size or for apparent strength and vigor would offer more plausibility to your premise.

[Reeses]

how would light skin or light hair indicate durability?

Beauty increases desirability and social standing of both the child and the mother among her peers. Young women are in a never ending competitive beauty contest with other women to the point it no longer has anything to do with attracting men, and that contest extends to their offspring. A woman that produces a baby with the least dirty looking skin wins that round. A baby with gold colored hair and sky blue eyes gives the mother high status. When that child is sick or there's not enough food to go around, the mother will make extra effort to keep her prized child alive. The evolutionary purpose of childhood cosmetic features is not for attracting mates, it's for out-competing siblings with the mother.

[Squawk 8888]

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[Zeneta]

Well played.

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMarking for later. Thanks for the great links, FRiend.

Tatt

[Bigg Red]

My original assessment of your hypothesis stands. Strange, IMO.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Hm. Makes me think of drum lines.

[1010RD]

It is in our nature. Hymns of praise are the language of heaven.