Started by reading topics related to music and sound as well as its relation to human as an object. The initial research papers and articles were read as a part of ideation since I started with a broad topic and trying to find a corner to start from not being the most practical or easiest part. I started with the effect of music in cells as a first step but there were no papers directly related to the topic but this later lead me to the paper explaining the evolution of the inner year and the development from the time of primitives.
The initial week was just trying to get into the flow of reading a Biology research paper. Writing down terms and their definition since I have been a biology student for a long time. For the paper about the growth of the semi balance in inner ear, I had to take help in understanding it as the diagrams and the words were not making sense and my patience was running out.
After not being able to find much my strategy was to ask questions and fill up the gap in my mental chart and fill up with answer from my on doing research.
Some of the questions were:
- How does cell works
- Can this be considered an evolution
- Does other factior effect the changes more than sound, so is this important
While filling up the question one of the major difference or the point I wanted to find was what is the evolution or development that has happened in human in the last 100 years of from the biggening of the 20th century. The only lead found was the change in the average of height over the years. Some places had decline in height and then now catching up or other countries where there is a steep incline in height for both male and female. Most of the reasoning given for the changes were related to nutrition, especially around the time of World War II. In many countries nutrition and hygiene got better resulting in better growth, and these were leading me to a dead end. There were even facts about how the duration during world war effected the upcoming generations such as the people who were under Nazi and had to go through a much rougher time. These situations bring slight in DNA resulting in being back to normal taking gernerations.
“It shows you the power and the generation-after-generation effects of something bad that happened to your mother gets carried on to you and your children, and it takes about five generations to overcome just one generation of starvation, or epidemic illness, or something like that,” Bogin told Live Science.”
Though there are researches stating that culture is a major reason for the changes to happen in a person but what they are concentration is the style of food or lifestyle not entertainment every individual is in contact with on a daily basis. While this stays as a opening thinking that music or sound is related to emotions and they are related to the physical well being of a human so it should be somehow making a difference. A major evidence found being, music is defenitly helpful with development from the stage of a fetus to later in audulthood, even if its to enhance the mood of the individual.
Before this stage while learning the effect of sound in cells it was fund that the impact of the waves on a cell do make slight changes and it has been proven but if music is helping in evolution is still not understood similar to reasoning for many evolutionary changes that has occurred in inner ear over the past centuries. Most of the researches reached the conclusion that theoretically it is valid but cannot have a defined result.
Without these evidences my research is being deviated and is not related to where I started.
The next step was to try to understand a pattern about the style over the last century and try to see if there are any noticeable similarities. For checking the data, the height average need to be available of multiple countries.
Screen shots of few researched topics till now:
