Our Ancestors Ate a Paleo Diet. It Had Carbs.
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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé shows music is less about composers than about our innate musicality.
Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?
Music is a human universal but its survival benefits are not obvious. So why did it evolve? I sat down with professor Ed Hagen to discuss 4 hypotheses on the origins of our grooviest trait.
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