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Music and Human Evolution

On June 30th, 2009 Andie H said:

Dr. Sacks,

I was wondering about music in terms of human evolution. It seems to play such a big part in our lives as humans...we also seem to be the only species who listens to and creates musical pieces. Obviously we have highly complex brains. Perhaps music evolved for some reason? Perhaps it provided some benefit to our human ancestors? I'm wondering if you could speak to this a bit.

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