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The Evolution of Music
A new study is looking at how oral transmission shapes the way music evolves. Nearly 1,800 participants from the United States and India listened to over 3,500 melodies then repeated them to each other. Methods like this could be replicated to study other behaviors that are influenced by what they call cultural transmission. That could change the way we understand human language, or even bird song.
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