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Podcast: Science Quickly
Episode: Is Singing an Evolutionary Accident or a Critical Way to Connect?
Description: Scientific American associate news editor and music enthusiast Allison Parshall takes Science Quickly through what we know about how singing came to be. Scientists aren’t sure why humans evolved to sing, but commonalities in traditional music offer clues to how the practice evolved. Neuroscience shows us where speech and singing live in the brain and what information the forms hold. And an upcoming experiment will look into how singing might make us more connected to one another.Recommended reading:New Folk Song Analysis Finds Similarities around the WorldHow Artificial Intelligence Helped Wr...