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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: 9 Amazing Things About Your Brain and Music
Description: There is absolutely no need for music—speaking in terms of evolution, anyway…
As far as scientists can tell, there’s no compelling reason for humans to make and enjoy music…neurologically, we could get along quite well without it…sure, our world would be very dull, but we’d be fine as a species…
Yet for some reason, the human brain seems to be hardwired for music…and it looks like even the non-human brain was constructed this way…archeologists found a flute made out of bone constructed by neanderthals that was almost 90,000 years old… why?...
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