Why do we need Music?

Music seems to be, literally, everywhere we go, from down into the Tube to the park to Carnegie Hall. In a recent article in The New York Times (2024, “Why Do People Make Music? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/science/universal-music-evolution.html ) Carl Zimmer reports on this phenomena. Zimmer shares that “Some researchers are developing new evolutionary explanations for music. Others maintain that music is a cultural invention, like writing, that did not need natural selection to come into existence. In recent years, scientists have investigated…

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