Why our cave-dwelling ancestors liked to sing

By at 4:13 pm Monday, Apr 3

Here's a news tidbit of interest to the two or three thousand people around the world still being hoodwinked by that heretical tripe Darwin cooked up when the world was young. (Get the straight dope here.)

Jeff says: "A U.K.archaeologist theorizes that human musicality evolved as a social cohesion mechanism."

One of the fur-clad men started it, a rhythmic sound with rising and falling pitch, and others picked it up, indicating their willingness to cooperate both in the moment and in the future, when the group would have to hunt or fend off predators. The music promoted "a sense of we-ness, of being together in the same situation facing the same problems."
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