An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Why Humans Are Musical

Why don't apes have musical talent? Humans, parrots, small birds, elephants, whales, and bats do and Matz Larsson, senior physician at the Lung Clinic at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, asserts that the ability to mimic and imitate things like music and speech is the result of the fact that synchronized group movement makes it possible to perceive sounds from the surroundings better.   read more

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