Monday, May 2, 2011

Born to Dance

New research explores the connection between babies and dance.  Babies love to dance.  It makes them happy, literally.  The findings show that babies that can match the rhythm of the music are happier.

Music pervades almost every culture of humanity.  Rightfully so, we can consider it a human universal.  Most animals can't dance to music, but we can.  Try getting your dog to dance.  Won't happen.  There is something very human about dancing and music which apparently starts very early in our lives and very early in our species.  Some have even suggested that language developed out of singing.

And after all of that, here is a video of a baby dancing to Beyonce.

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