Music Banter - View Single Post - The Evolution of Music: Accident, or Adaptation?

duga · 12-07-2011, 03:42 PM

I think a lot of what you guys are saying is very interesting...but you are reaching way too far. None of this could be proven without someone else bringing up a ton of confounding factors. Look for the simplest explanation and then build off that.

Musical ability reflecting sexual fitness is something the modern world has come up with. Most ancient music was developed as a way to communicate with gods. For example...Native Americans and the rain dance. With that, it would be easy for me to say that music started its evolution in the fact that early humans recognized the purity in the patterns that I mentioned and felt it was mystical. Shamans and mystics who could more accurately channel these patterns were deemed...well...I guess more fit than the others. I bet early musical evolution can be traced to that.

12-07-2011, 03:42 PM	#83 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	I think a lot of what you guys are saying is very interesting...but you are reaching way too far. None of this could be proven without someone else bringing up a ton of confounding factors. Look for the simplest explanation and then build off that. Musical ability reflecting sexual fitness is something the modern world has come up with. Most ancient music was developed as a way to communicate with gods. For example...Native Americans and the rain dance. With that, it would be easy for me to say that music started its evolution in the fact that early humans recognized the purity in the patterns that I mentioned and felt it was mystical. Shamans and mystics who could more accurately channel these patterns were deemed...well...I guess more fit than the others. I bet early musical evolution can be traced to that. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...