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163 - Daniel Levitin: Songwriting and the Neuroscience of Music

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The Evolutionary Basis of Music

This chapter discusses the potential evolutionary basis of music and its role in preserving knowledge. The speaker speculates that music may have evolved for multiple purposes simultaneously and suggests that one of those purposes was to encode and pass down important knowledge in pre-literate societies.

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