ABSTRACT
The universal appeal of music, which used to be considered as a social construct that varies from culture to culture, might be better conceived as an adaptive response of the organism. The Scientists confirmed in the 1970s that the average human fetus can hear during the last trimester of pregnancy and as early as 1994 that the mother's voice is the most intense acoustical signal in the amniotic environment. Lacanians have interpreted the sonorous womb, a critical factor in this chapter, in many ways. The chapter has presented evidence that inflected vocal utterance, singing, and elements of musicality represented general fitness advantages in the development of our primate ancestors. Apparently, the powerful maternal voice continues not only to stimulate, but to be recognized and to generate some sort of pleasure response, well into near-death states. The chapter has revealed that hearing humans are well acquainted with the cadences of mother's voice by the time they are born.
