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Quote by: Technosoul  For one thing I would suspect that primitive women were just as strong as primitive men were. They can naturally endure more pain and would be better at survival then men.
Sometimes animals will use noise to warn or to scare off potential preditors. If you bang on things a lion might run off. But I doubt if human voices were evolved for that purpose. I just cannot image that sceaming would give anyone much of an advantage in warding off animals who often attack swiftly from the bushes. The apes and chimps are always making racket but I think it has more to do with some kind of socializing then anything else. Perhaps for singing when we wanted to get creative but singing in harmony with low and high scales is hardly something of interest to evolutionists.
But we can start off with now and work backwards. What advantages does this give us nowadays? Does it make men better hunters or fishermen to get a larger voice box? Does it make us better fighters, or does it help us to escape dangers? Does it improve our social behavior as pack animals?
Saying it has an evolutionary purpose even if we do not know what it is... to me is not a worthwhile answer. It is a non-answer. |
Yes stating that it HAS evolved without giving an explanation as to how it evolved is somewhat of a non-answer. We could think up possible explanations all day and while most of them are possible, they may not be correct.
What's important is to accept the fact that males and females have evolved differently when it comes to their voices. This has happened for "some" reason (which is probably a huge combination of different reasons over the years). We may not be able to determine exactly what those reasons are but at least we know where we're at now and what pressures exist today that are having an influence.