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Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

2025-06-27

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Many animals produce sounds during courtship and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and could underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “have nearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have”. Here, we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a wide range of animals, that the strength of human pref...

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Literature Corpus work: ce0834d2-6006-5d8d-bfd7-e0f18ed738b7
DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.26.661759

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