Did Ancient Prayers Actually Come From Tweets? - Haaretz

One of the greatest rites performed in Hinduism, the Agnicayana, requires an arduous and exacting process to set the stage. Curiouser still, the altar is shaped like a bird! The mantras performed are strange and alien, leading Nicholas Ben-Marcus to propose these chants are derived from bird song. If the science doesn't convince you, researchers have found the birds whose songs best match those mantras. How, and why, did humans pick up on plagiarizing birdsong? Bill Andrews reckons Humans's Ability To Hear Harmonic Sounds Might Set Us Apart from other criters. But what about primates, our closest relatives? That's where the evidence becomes compelling. (CS)

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