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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