"...the suspicion does not appear improbable that the progenitors of man, either the males or females, or both sexes, before they had acquired the power of expressing their mutal love in articulate language, endeavoured to charm each other with musical notes and rhythm." (259)
Although Darwin just talks of our ancestors using music as a way to express their love and charm one another, we still use music to express our love in today's society. Try and count all the songs we now have about love and see how long it takes! Even though we now have an "articulate language" as a way to charm someone, we still use songs as well.
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Did you see Rachel's post?
http://rjl046.blogspot.com/2007/09/happy-feet.html
interesting to see the connection!
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