However, the fact that there is no culture without music, the syntax of which is implicitly learned and easily recognizable, suggests that human musicality may be an adaptive phenomenon. There is historical and cross-cultural diversity of this structure which indicates that learning is an important part of the development of human musicality. This structure is an auditory (not acoustical) phenomenon, meaning that it is a human-specific interpretation of sounds achieved thanks to certain characteristics of the nervous system.

What usually differentiates music from other forms of human sound expressions is a syntactically organized structure based on pitch classes and rhythmic units measured in reference to musical pulse. Since music is a complex phenomenon which consists of features that represent different stages of the evolution of human auditory abilities, the question concerning the evolutionary origin of music must focus mainly on music specific properties and their possible biological function or functions. Why were humans and lions the two most widespread mammalian species of our planet? Why are lions social and why do they have manes? Why are virtually all man-eating lions male and all man-eating tigers female? Why is the tiger the worldвЂ™s favourite animal, and why are cats so popular on the internet? Why do many dictators and tyrants hate cats? Why do most singing animals in the world live in trees? Why are peafowls not interested in a peacockвЂ™s dazzling tail? Why do we talk to ourselves and why do we have radios and TVs turned on when no one is watching or listening? Why do soldiers dance together before combat missions? Why are there several movies about the legendary 300 Spartans and not a single one about the Sacred Band of Thebes, who defeated the mighty Spartans on two separate occasions? Why do some people have split personalities? A definite read for those who are interested in a wide circle of questions from the nature of altruism and cannibalism to homosexualism, the evolutionary origins of human music, dance and body painting and even the development of culture and religion.ДЇrom the biological perspective human musicality is the term referred to as a set of abilities which enable the recognition and production of music. The author closely follows the history of their relationship, from initial sporadic contacts between tree-living primates and ancestral big cats, to their later rivalry on the woodlands and open savannah, and finally into the present day where both big and small cats still captivate the eyes and minds of millions of people - this book essentially presents the original hypothesis of human and big cat co-evolution. From award-winning ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist from the University of Melbourne, Joseph Jordania, this book discusses the long and dynamic evolutionary interaction between human ancestors and the ancestors of the big cats.

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