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Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily :Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily .Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily .Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily .Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily . Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily . Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily . Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

It's a damn fascinating prospect. Here at the following hyperlink one can click it and read the article at Science Daily .

Apparently there is "evolution" (for perhaps lack of a better word) going on with two groups of fish that transmit electric signals ---yet each group uses different patterns of signals from the other and yet they apparently have identical DNA ! The speciation has been observed in bodies of water in Africa . Apparently the two groups of that seeming same species of electric fish use electric signals to map out territory , court a breeding mate, and other purposes. But what utilitarian survival purpose would such a differentiation of signals between the two groups serve ? If one sort of electric signals works well to keep one group in the same basic area alive then why wouldn't the same pattern work for survival as far as the fish that have formed the other group are concerned , just as well ?

It looks like that something more than a survival impetus is at work . Could the different rythmns or patterns of signals between the two groups be an esthetic choice , a kind of proto-music or proto art (of a sonic sort) by another species.? Could the emergence of such signalling behaviors be , indeed, a kind of proto-culture among those fish ?

POSTSCRIPT : Could humans in a non-authoritarian way interact with such creatures that display sympatric speciation and gently enhance the process (without artificially made chemicals nor genetic tinkering) and enhance and amplify that process to the edification of all creatures? That's worth brainstorming about .