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.

[jaydubya2]

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Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh reveals he is being treated for bladder cancer

[a fool in paradise]

People don’t dial phone numbers anymore, they have them programmed.

Also, the addition of 3 digits to every phone number made it considerably more difficult to remember the full number, 3 different prefixes in town (expanding to a 4th)... most phone numbers begin the same. That similarity doesn’t make it any easier. It’s more confusing.