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Thetic Part 1 – Philosophical Introduction
Darwin. 60 The core differences we will find, comparing both systems, are the
different praxis and meanings about natural selection and adaptation. For instance:
does music have any importance concerning natural selection? For Darwin
it isn’t clear. His vision: the only reason is sexuality.
3.3 What does music share with language?
Currently hot is the fundamental question: “What does music share with language?”
Focusing this question leads to an emphasis on the similarities between
language and music. Sometimes scientists come to a conclusion of similar functions.
We must distinguish between language in general and active speech as
language production, similar to the music production. These differences have
crucial implications for the origins of music in particular. Imagine you were
searching for the genes responsible for musicality. Finding the particular gene or
genes for behaviour is a challenging task, for there are billion of possible loci for
these genes in the human genome. However, if indeed music and speech are similar
functions with common origins, a good principle would be to look for the
genes that already have been identified for speech. One good candidate is the
“The powerful scenario of genetic variations combined with natural selection provides us with a comfortable and satisfying
picture of evolution. According tot his view, mutations, which are the raw material of evolution, are continuously
arising and either accumulate of are eliminate. … Darwin: “This preservation of favourable individual differences and
variations, and the destruction of those injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or Survival of the Fittest”… according
to my view, varieties are species in process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species. How, then, does
the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species? That natural selection
will always act with extreme slowness, I fully admit” (Darwin, The Origin of the Species, London, 1872). Darwin was
right in thinking that the selection of random mutations is a slow process, although today we know that a new species
could arise with only a single mutation in a master gene… Mutation is not the only source of variations … to create is to
re-combine. From bacteria to higher organism, in addition to de genetic modifications (mutations and recombination)
within individual’s own germ line, recombination with genetic material from other entities may also allow adaptations to
new conditions. Recombination is the foundation of change, which, by itself, provides tremendous possibilities for switching
between types. About the DNA/RNA Minnoo writes: “Small RNA’s are at the center of regulatory networks during
development. Although much remains to be learned about their possible functions, one cannot help wondering whether
they might provide a powerful means for generating diversity and new species”, page 229,230.
60 “A perspective on evolutionary problems that emphasises developmental processes and phenotypic variation. Evolutionary
analysis starts by studying the origins and causes of transmission. Natural selection of heritable variations is seen as
crucial fora an account of evolution, so the Lamarckian approach has considered as complementary in Darwinian, selection-oriented
one”, Giss and Jabloncka, op.cit. page 427.