Holy Hell: Check out this video

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, looks like a winner

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by JohnT

Possbily an aspect, but not nearly the whole picture.

It has more to do with the symbolic process in humans and mythology. i.e., its fundamentally religious in nature.

Spiders:

Certain female jumping spiders demand that their mates tap dance and sing before they will mate with them, according to new research.

While it is well known that birds sing and bees dance, the addition of Fred Astaire spiders to the story of "the birds and the bees" is relatively new, and suggests that spiders engage in much more sophisticated communication and behavior than previously thought.

http://animal.discovery.com/news/afp/20050103/spider.html

Fishes:

A male three-spined stickleback starts his courtship by building a nest inside a territory he defends. When a female approaches he performs a zig-zag dance towards and away from the nest until she turns towards him and raises her head. He then leads her to the nest and waits, head down, beside the entrance. If she enters the nest he nudges her tail. She lays eggs, and leaves by swimming through the nest. He follows, fertilizing the eggs. In this ritual, each response stimulates the next activity and an incorrect response causes the last step to be repeated.

http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555450_3/Animal_Behaviour.html

Birds:

Watch a male Arfak Parotia bird of paradise dance and displays to females a weird, beautiful, and funny routine by clicking above.

http://www.princeton.edu/~amoroz/2005/04/arfak-parotia.html

(the above is a video of a dancing bird and the mates he wants to boink, er, have a loving and stable relationship with.

Not saying that humans haven't added a plethora of other reasons to dance, but in Darwinian terms the urge to dance likely comes from the need/desire to attract mates.

I appreciate all that, but in humans its a great deal more complex.

My honours thesis in anthropology touched on this, but I won't get into that now... it would take up pages.

But I do appreciate what you're trying to demonstrate, and it shouldn't be overlook, I'm just saying there's more.

Oh, and as far as Darwin's "survival of the fittest", there's more to it than natural selection.

[Immortal Wombat]

Sexual selection is way more important there I would think. But as dance and religion neither fossilise nor leave any evidence, I imagine most theories are speculation. Until someone shows that there is a genetic 'desire' to dance, I think I would tend to favour the cultural evolution of dancing.

[FrostyBoy]

You think thats amazing?

Look for the cupgirl or "cup girl" video

And the Beethoven game some korean (I think he's korean) plays.

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if cup girl is like tubgirl, then no thank you.

[DRoseDARs]

Re: Cup Girl (and no, it isn't anything remotely like Tub Girl)

Good God what a useless talent.

http://www.holylemon.com/CupGirl.html

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if it's clean enough to risk being posted here, I guess I'll watch it.

[Maquiladora]

I wish it were more like tubgirl now.

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, I don't.

but that's a real useless skill she has there.