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evolution, 41, 55, 153, 172
tymbal, 55, 172
cichlids, 65
cilium, 6–7, 14, 17, 18, 22–24
cities, 321–50. See also specific cities
bird colonization of, 174, 321–26
gentrification of, 343, 344–46
city noise, 333–50
gender and, 346–47
gentrification and neighbors, 343–46
inequality in urban planning, 339–43, 346
noise and sound pollution, 335–36, 339–46
neurotypicals and, 347–48
traffic noise, 115, 148, 269, 326, 333–35
clams, 67, 313
Clarinet Concerto (Copland), 257
clarinets, 212, 240, 241, 243, 245, 369
click patterns of sperm whales, 164
climate change, 69, 286–87, 306
club mosses, 43, 52
cochlea, 15, 16–17, 24, 27–28, 61
cockatoos, 181–82, 186
cockerels, 152–53
cocobolo, 239, 241
Cocroft, Rex, 92
cod-spawning, 275
coevolution, 52, 131, 132, 133, 255
cognitive development and noise, 338
Cold War, 292
Collins, Judy, 294
Colombia, 283, 285
colonialism, 243–45, 287
Colorado Rockies forest fires, 268–69
Colorado Rockies forests, 81–86, 99, 105, 127
common ancestor, 129, 165–66
Composition for Synthesizer (Babbitt), 179–80
Conard, Nicholas, 195
coneheads, 106
conifers, 36, 42, 43, 53, 54, 82–83
consonants, 74, 89–90
continental shelf, 309, 310
Cootharaba, Lake, 359
Copland, Aaron, 257
corals, 67, 300
corn, 51
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 149
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves, 62–63, 69
COVID-19 pandemic, 268, 316–17, 326, 327, 339
coyotes, 103
crabs, 45, 65, 67, 298–99
crested owls, 95–96, 101, 107
Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, 58–59
Cretaceous Period, 53, 55, 56–57, 60–62, 66
Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, 53, 66
crickets, xi, xii, 35, 47, 173–74, 182, 269
acoustic competition, 109, 110
evolution, 17, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 54, 185
hearing organs, 17, 39
population decline, 48–49
wing sounds, 37, 39, 40, 43, 47, 96, 172
crocodiles, 60
Crowdy Bay, 180–84, 186–87, 190
crows, 185, 254, 325
crustaceans, 14, 17, 45, 64–65, 67
cubism, 213, 214
cultural evolution, 143–65, 169, 170, 255–56, 327–28, 331
Cumberland Plateau, 262
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daddy longlegs, 45
daisies, 144
Dalley, Stephanie, 335
damselfish, 65
Dante Alighieri, 281
Darwin, Charles, 125–26, 129–30, 188, 363
Darwin, Charles Galton, 130–31
Darwin’s finches, 89, 132
Dauvois, Michel, 221
Dawenkou culture, 229
Dayak people, 286–87, 288
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), 306
Deaf culture, 31
Death Magnetic (Metallica), 231–32
“deep sound channel,” 91, 94, 292, 309
deep time, 172, 213, 377
Crowdy Bay, 180–84, 186–87, 190
Mount Scopus, 173–76, 190
Saint Catherines Island, 176–80, 187, 190
defaunation of the oceans, 69
deforestation, 245–47, 262–67, 276–79, 282–83, 285–86, 289, 317
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 282
Denali Highway, 149
Denisovans, 76
dental overbite, 89, 212
Descartes, René, 103
desertification, 170
deserts, 3, 51, 88
Deutsch, Diana, 28–29
Devonian Period, 45
dialects, 159–60, 162
diet, 69–70. See also human diet
role in bird vocalization, 88–89
digital music, 232–33
dinosaurs, 42, 60–61, 61
DNA. See genes and genetics
dogs, 30, 74, 297
dolphins, 63, 164, 170, 300–301, 312, 315, 360, 361–62
drums (drumming), 201–2, 229
drums (fish), 65
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ear bones, 27, 29, 31, 38, 305
evolution, 10, 14–15, 16–17, 38, 61, 248–51
earbuds, 229, 232–33, 236
eardrums, 10, 14, 24, 27, 29, 38, 59, 249–50
early universe, 374–76
Earth Day, 295
eastern redbuds, 93–94
Eastern spadefoot toads, 116–17
echinoderms, 67
echolocation, 312
bats, 56, 71
whales, 68, 69, 295–96, 297, 300–305
Éclairs sur l’au-delà (Messiaen), 182
“ecological footprint,” 333
ecotourism, 279
Ediacaran fauna, 6, 44, 53
Egypt, ancient, musical instruments in, 229
Eilish, Billie, 233
electric amplification, 230–31
electronic dance music (EDM), 180, 234–35
“Elegy” (composition), 239, 257
elephant fish, 91
elephants, 30, 94, 153, 275, 326
Eliot, George, 346
elk, 85–86
Ellil, 335
embouchure, 208, 209, 212, 230
“enantiornithes,” 57
Endangered Species Act, 304
end-Cretaceous extinction event, 58–59
end-Permian extinction event, 50
environmental activism, 49, 285, 295
Environmental Protection Agency, 295
Ernst, Max, 213
Ethics
forests, 267–68, 280–81, 288–89
listening, xiii–xiv, 49–50, 266–67, 283–90, 292, 296–97, 317–19, 364–65
music, 243–48, 258
roots in aesthetics, 137–41
sound’s ephemerality, 376–77
urban sound, 333, 339–50
eugenics, 130–31
eukaryotes, 5–6, 17, 23
Eurasian blackbirds, 174–75, 321–26, 329–30, 332
Eurasian blackcaps, 215–16
European Environment Agency, 338
European tree frogs, 127
evolution, xii–xiii, 6–7, 16–17, 26, 43–45, 110, 184–85, 248–51, 255–56. See also cultural evolution
aesthetic preferences, 124, 127, 129–36, 138
birds, 16–17, 18, 57–59, 61, 99, 132–33, 135, 161–63, 165–66, 185
cilium, 6–7, 14, 17, 18, 22–24
common ancestor, 129, 165–66
Fisher’s process, 129–36
flowers, 52–53, 56, 57, 59, 61–62
insects, 7, 41, 42–43, 47, 53–56, 253
mammals, 16–17, 38, 60–61, 69–70, 165–66, 249–50
speciation, 129, 133, 161–63
evolutionary tree, 46–47, 172, 184–87
insects, 41, 42–43, 53, 54–55, 185–86
marine life, 46–47, 65
expansion of the universe, 374–76
extinction, 48–49, 58–59, 62, 69, 267
extinction rates, 49
eye light receptors, 23
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Fabre, Jean-Henri, 47
fallopian tubes, 23
“Farewell to Tarwathie” (song), 294
Fazenda, Bruno, 222
Federal Noise Control, 343
ferns, 36, 42, 43, 52, 53
fetus and hearing, 9–10
figbirds, 182
fin whales, 296
Fire in My Mouth (Wolfe), 257
fish. See also specific species
evolution, 17, 65–66, 152, 234, 248–49
hearing system, 14–15, 17, 91
lateral line system of, 14, 18, 45, 91, 248–49
negative effects of noise on, 313, 315
physical environment’s role on sound, 90–91
swim bladders of, 13, 14, 15, 44, 65–66, 304
Fish, Marie Poland, 63
fish crows, 179
Fisher, Ronald, 129–36
Fisherian runaway, 129–36
fishing, 294, 303, 306
overfishing, 69
flagellum, 23
flatworms, 46
flies, 17, 41, 56, 100–101, 123, 130
flowers (flowering plants), 51–53, 143–45
evolution and, 53, 56, 57, 59, 61–62
flutes. See Paleolithic flutes and musical instruments
flycatchers, 98, 108, 112, 153, 175, 179, 187
flying squirrels, 61
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 281
forests, 261–90
acoustic competition in, 105–12
deforestation, 245–47, 262–67, 276–79, 282–83, 285–86, 289, 317
musical instruments and woods, 240–47
forest certification, 280
forest conservation, 262, 263, 266, 268, 272, 277, 278
role of indigenous communities, 281–89
forest fires, 170, 268, 286–87
forest management, 246
forest monitoring, 279–80
bird surveys, 261–63, 265–67, 268, 279
Forest Stewardship Council, 246
fork-tailed drongos, 104
fossil records, 63, 70, 172, 189, 200, 250
birds, 57–59, 188
crustaceans, 65
Ediacaran fauna, 6, 44, 53
flowers, 53
insects, 35–43
mammals, 60–61
Salagou Formation, 36–38, 49
40,000 Years of Modern Art (exhibit), 213
FOXP2 gene, 76, 167
frequency. See sound frequency
friarbirds, 181–82, 187
Friends of the San Juan, 307
fritillary butterflies, 35
frogs, 115–22. See also spring peepers; tree frogs
acoustic competition, 109–10
Borneo rain forests, 269, 270, 273, 337
costs of calling, 120–22
evolution and sound making, 59, 61, 249, 347
mating calls, 13, 40, 86, 115–21, 124, 126–29, 136–37
sound production, 117–18, 119–20, 177
species and taxonomy, 99, 124, 177, 183, 186fruitwoods, 240
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Galápagos Islands, 89, 132, 330
