News Summary

• From flashing fireflies to human music, many biological rhythms appear to converge on the same rhythmic range.
• Most popular Western music fits within this range at around 120 beats per minute (2 hertz) The researchers also screened 124 recordings from the vast wildlife sound archive xeno-canto and identified 50 species with regular rhythmic signals.
• These, too, clustered within the same tempo range, with a peak around 180 beats perminute.
• The findings echo decades of research on human rhythm perception.