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sábado, 27 de junio de 2015

DNA DANCING: COURTSHIP RITUALS IN BIRDS AND HUMANS

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By Gundhramns Hammer 
June 27, 2015


In the web of life, to make more DNA it takes more DNA and through eons of time DNA has come up with many ways to make more DNA.

Even though dancing may look like it does not have anything to do with DNA making, nevertheless in the end it is indeed connected to making more DNA.

In birds, dancing is used during courtship to make more DNA for the gene pool (Videos 1-2).


Video 1. The dancing grebes. Uploaded by heavenshield.



Video 2. Dancing grebes. Uploaded by bjirnpdx.



How about in humans?

Dancing in human adults may be a way of showing off reproductive fitness to the opposite sex for fun, entertaintment and/or courstship or a way of exciting and getting the body´s reproductive machinery ready for action which eventually may lead to wasting DNA somewhere along the screwing line or making more DNA to contribute to the DNA pool along the timeline (Video 3).


Video 3. Circassian Noble dancing (Adyghe work' k'afa): 'Kabardinka' ensemble. Uploaded by Zuhia Land.

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