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from the retention-of-aboriginal-storytelling-enhanced-by-dirigidoo dept. [article] As evidence mounts that we're somehow hard-wired to be musical, some thinkers are turning their attention to the next logical question: How did that come to be, why did our distant ancestors evolve music in the first place? The fact that music is universal across cultures and has been part of human life for a very long time-archeologists have found musical instruments dating from 34,000 BC, and some believe that a 50,000-year-old hollowed-out bear bone from a Neanderthal campsite is an early flute-does suggest that it may indeed be an innate human tendency. But although ideas abound --from the birdsong theory of attracting sex partners for procreation to the postulation of being a ritualized tool for maintaining social group identity and cohesiveness-- it's yet unclear what purpose music originally served. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09/03/survival_of_the_harmonious/ < | >
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