Speechmaps, songmaps, and lovemaps in evolutionary sexology

Journal/Book: Cah Psychol Cognitive. 1998; 17: C N R S-C R N C 31, Chemin Joseph Alguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France. Adrsc-Assoc Diffusion Recherches Sciences Cognitives. 1229-1235.

Abstract: Hypothetically, evolution of the human language map (the speechmap) was connected with the human mating map (the lovemap), by way of the musicmap (the songmap) as the connecting bridge. The hypothetical evolutionary sequence began with emancipation from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion, which in turn emancipated mating and breeding from biorobotic dependency on the male nose and the pheromone secreting vagina of the estrous female as the organs of erotic attraction and arousal. In parallel with upright locomotion, smells and the nose were taken over by the eyes and contrectative (skin) senses as the organs of erotic attraction and arousal, especially in the lovemap of the human species. Together with other brainmind maps, the human visual and contrectative lovemap became evolutionarily emancipated from strict biorobotic control, in particular cyclic hormonal control. Concomitant emancipation of the songmap and the vocal signaling map was linked to the lovemap through mating and courtship calls. Hence the poetic evolutionary speculation that the first human speech was a love song and maybe also a lullaby. Without evolutionary emancipation of the songmap as well as the vocal signaling map From biorobotic control, the brainmapping system would not have been flexible enough for the evolution of the speechmap. Overall flexibility could not be attained without, in addition, evolution of the biorobotic quadrupedal mating map into the emancipated bipedal lovemap. This is an important concept in evolutionary sexology for it opens a window of explanation on why human lovemaps are so variably idiosyncratic, to the point of being kinky, in legal terminology perverted, and in biomedical terminology paraphilic, even to the extent of being nonprocreative.

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