Despite this blog being predominantly relating to primates, last year I gave a presentation relating to the autopomorphy of humans being able to dance and keep to a beat. I did argue that no other species have been found to dance in tempo with a partner for recreation. I think part of this argument still stands as no other species do partner dance. However, there is new evidence that birds dance to the beat, so despite there being no evidence for partner dancing this is really an amazing discovery. Indeed, it is suggested that it is linked to vocal learning and mimicry. Is it absence of evidence or evidence of absence? Indeed, why would they need to partner dance, and is recreation potentially a human autopomorphy? It depends on how recreation is defined, indeed, this warrants an in-depth discussion beyond a blog post. Nevertheless, a great discussion point!
http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0430-hance_birddance.html
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