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    Treefall Gap Dynamics

    The history of research on the ecology of treefall gaps goes as far back as the 1930s. Since then, a rich volume of literature has been generated on Gap Phase Dynamics. These include testing highly influential predictions and hypotheses that aim to explain the complex trade-off between colonization and competition. But, how did the idea of Gap Phase Dynamics germinate and take root? What are the key tenets of this widespread natural event? How did the thinking of the 19th […]

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  • What Singing Lemurs Can Tell Us About the Origin of Music – Mongabay (2025)

    What Singing Lemurs Can Tell Us About the Origin of Music – Mongabay (2025)

    Musical Protolanguage Hypothesis, first devised by Charles Darwin, states that in addition to gestures, early humans most probably communicated using musical sounds before developing spoken language. Therefore music can be seen as a prerequisite for language, as an ancestral step to process a linear auditory signal corresponding to a sentence. Darwin noted that birdsong is the nearest analogy to language. However, before birds, perhaps we should pay more attention to our evolutionary relatives (which Darwin would absolutely agree). The endangered […]

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