23-07-2008, 09:55 PM
London, UK (BBC): Toadfish and midshipman fish use a variety of different sounds to attract mates and scare off rivals. Now US researchers have found that the area of a fish's brain that drives vocalisation is extremely primitive. Writing in the journal Science, they say it suggests that the ability to communicate through sound emerged very early in the evolution of vertebrates.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7510443.stm
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