Re: Singing as prerequisite (or aid) to language.

EKurtz99@xxxxxxx wrote in news:d99ls8$150o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

EKurtz made a number of comments, many of which I agree with, and I snipped
much, but:


> Intellectual rigor in theorizing about human evolution requires at the
> very least that proffered hypotheses add to our understanding and are
> not mere unsupported stories. Theorists in this domain, and some
> contributors to this thread, feel that it is enough to construct a
> plausible adaptive story and leave it at that. eg communal singing is
> more efficient than grooming as a social glue in primate societies -
> so why are there no singing apes?

Just a quick note in the interests of rigor, or honesty, or something:
there are singing non-human apes - the gibbons. (My explanation for this is
that they are monogamous - communal singing is not involved.)

Yours,

Bill Morse

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