3. Courtship
Humans share their feelings by singing and dancing, they develop a sense of belonging together, friendships emerge. Good dancers and singers are preferred by the opposite gender. Some animals have melodies and sound to attract a mate, to generate a “community emotion” and to communicate. Whales and dolphins “sing” and wolves howl, many bird species sing, maybe because many bird species have only one partner to raise their offspring (lifelong “matrimony”), they also sing for attracting and choosing a mate. Anthropologist Mary Batten (USA,http://www.marybatten.com ) writes in her book “Sexual strategies-how females choose their mates” that the order “primates” includes more species with monogamous behavior than any other mammalian order. Birds do also sing and twitter to defend their territory or to mark it, as a signal: Every male bird of the same species will be attacked if he crosses the border of the territory. Only humans have a language with many words, so only humans have songs with lyrics. Evolution gave our ancestors music and made them and us gregarious, and the present shows the relative success of mankind over other animals.
Orang-Utan researcher Birute Galdikas reports that her mentor, anthropologist Louis Leakey was convinced that women are better observers and recognize details better, even those which at the moment may seem irrelevant. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: ”In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanted to play. Up then, ye women, and discover the child in man!”. These assumptions are confirmed by the research of Doris Bischof-Koehler, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, see the end of my short text.