How did music happen? Part 2: “Spartans, Chimps & Neurons”
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How did music happen? Part 2: “Spartans, Chimps & Neurons”

Chimp listening to music

This is a part of a series of articles. Click here to go back to Part 1: “Digging”   The neural symphony It’s pretty obvious we can all perceive music as such and thus have something in our bodies which has the specific function of extracting and interpreting information in a musical form. To explore this notion further, we should first look at what happens in the grey blob that lives inside our head, called brain, when we listen to…

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How did music happen? Part 1: “Digging”

Divje Babe flute

  Hey. A question I’ve asked myself for longer than I can remember popped into my head for the millionth time: how did music happen? It’s been bugging me since forever and I’m sure you know exactly what I’m talking about. Anyway, I boldly decided to dive into the depths of human history and scientific thought only to find that my question was as fundamental as a question could get. My search led me through a very, very long series…