Sound in the animal kingdom, with David George Haskell
Instant Genius
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The Evolution of the Syrynx
Birds are an interesting case because they evolved in about a hundred, 55 million years ago. But many of those early birds didn't have the structure in their that modern birds have. And so we hear the evolutionary legacy of renewal after a massive loss when we're listening to bird song. We owe our vocal diversity to many things, but one of them, early on was the gift of milk from tethese great grandmothersto their offspring that re worked our jaws.
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