David

Rothenberg

Professor of Philosophy and Music, ECM musician with a special interest in animal sounds as music, author of several books, founder of Terra Nova Music 

You learn that there is music in nature; it's not just a human imposition. It's this aspect of evolution that Charles Darwin was well aware of, but today it's hard to find a biology textbook that admits that evolution creates a lot of weird, cool, beautiful stuff.

Evolution produces all this beauty, which is amazing, but you can't always explain it away with some practical purpose. And I think this has profound implications for how we understand nature.