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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Nightingale Song Could Have a Drugging Effect on a Nightingale
Bird song has great aesthetic appeal, or some bird songs have great aesthetic appeal for for humans. A man called hartshorn who actually tried to make the case that bird song was an aesthetic said birds had an aesthetic appreciation of song. And he was rather ridiculed for that. But it's not too far distant from what i'm now saying, which is that er the manipulative effect of a male bird song on the female physiology um is kind of like an aesthetic experience. Soer we can kind of make a darwinian justification for using the language of aesthetics,. and in a similar kind of way, we do the same with the aesthetics of a flight, of enjoying it, of
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