Who asked the first question? : the origins of human choral singing, intelligence, language and speech

Who Asked the First Question? The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech is a book on human evolution and the origins of human choral singing. It was written by Joseph Jordania, ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne. The book was published in 2006 by "Logos". The book discusses the origins of choral singing, and more broadly, the origins of music and many related issues, including origins of human intelligence, language, speech, etiology and cross-cultural prevalence of stuttering and dyslexia. The book has been used in university courses on music evolution and music universals in Canada, USA, Georgia, Russia, and Australia. The book received the Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology in 2009. As a continuation of his 2006 book, in 2011 Jordania published another book, Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution which is mostly dedicated to the role of singing in evolution of human morphology and behavior. -Wikipedia "The central theme of this book - The origins of human choral singing - is discussed in the wide interdisciplinary context of the origins of music, evolution of human intelligence, language, speech, distribution of stuttering, dyslexia, and acquisition of phonological system by children from different cultures. Scholars view about the first edition of this book : - SIMHA AROM, CNRS, France : " I totally agree with the main idea of Joseph Jordania about the ancient origins of choral singing and its gradual disappearance. To my opinion also,there is no "evolution" from monophonic to polyphonic singing, and I was glad to see that the argumentation of this idea is so strong and logic" . - STEVEN BROWN, Simon Fraser University,Canada :"Joseph Jordania's book is a masterpiece of comparative musicology by a person with an amazing knowledge base. As a co-editor of the book "The Origins of Music"(2000),I am thrilled to finally see a true work of comparative musicology appear after many decades of neglect. This is the kind of material that people,from psychology to evolutionary biology, need to ponder as to incorporate music into the emerging picture of human evolution". -- Back cover Joseph Jordania. At Head Of Title: Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Institute Of Classical, Byzantine And Modern Greek Studies, International Research Centre Of Traditional Polyphony. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 397-437) And Index.