music did not evolve specifically for the purpose of courtship display
I’m wondering why you think this: I don’t think it’s right. Music seems to be clearly a courtship signal. I’m guessing it was the other way around: it started as a courtship signal and was amplified by other human processes, becoming more than that as human societies developed it.
Hmm you are right. I wasn’t sure what I was saying there!
Maybe I meant it was in some significant prototypical form as some byproduct of our auditory processing and etcetera before it was ‘captured’ and amplified by sexual selection.
It’s curious how so much culture can be built upon the contents of courtship displays.
I’m wondering why you think this: I don’t think it’s right. Music seems to be clearly a courtship signal. I’m guessing it was the other way around: it started as a courtship signal and was amplified by other human processes, becoming more than that as human societies developed it.
Hmm you are right. I wasn’t sure what I was saying there!
Maybe I meant it was in some significant prototypical form as some byproduct of our auditory processing and etcetera before it was ‘captured’ and amplified by sexual selection.
It’s curious how so much culture can be built upon the contents of courtship displays.