Name: How humans evolved music—from scratch | Michael Spitzer
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And once you widen the lens as widely as possible,

see the big picture where sapien music comes from,

And we know this because we evolved along the ape line-

and apes compared to birds, are not musical.

They are confined to the chords they're born with.

So it's very odd that humans evolved from apes,

who are not musical, but humans evolved music again

at the University of Liverpool in the U.K.

I've written a book called "The Musical Human:

of humanity's search for celestial knowledge.'

this suggested a very interesting thought experiment

For instance, a Bach-Brandenburg concerto,

If we imagine aliens open this in a billion years,

will they be able to extrapolate some common denominator,

And this begs the question: What do they have in common?

Now, I think what they do have in common, even for an alien,

We inhabit a very narrow band of perceptual space.

They aren't as fast as a Pipistrelle bat's song,

What they will see though, is a lot of commonality

as to say that we repeat at rising levels.

Section in the work, and so on at infinitum.

And that might strike aliens as interesting.

this is not so different from animal music."

But they will recognize sapiens for perhaps

which goes back to Australopithecus, four million years ago.

When we talk about the origin of human music,

it's really about assembling elements of music,

which were synthesized much further down the road.

And one of these elements was bipedalism.

That what marks the first hominins apart from apes,

and our common ancestor, was getting up on our feet.

There is this link between rhythm and emotion,

which is due to the connections in the human brain

between the motor regions controlling our motion

to the orchestra playing the "Lone Ranger."

Now, they had never heard the "Lone Ranger" before,

but they had an instinctive response to that rhythm.

of a whole cascade of evolutionary adaptations.

to make links with the motor domains of our brain.

But standing up also gives us more space to breathe.

And our larynx descends through our vocal tracts.

Our Hyoid bone, which supports our tongue,

evolves so we can articulate what we sing.

And as our vocal tract learned how to produce

our capacity to make sounds exceeded their function.

If you compare us with, say, the Vervet monkey,

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How humans evolved music—from scratch | Michael Spitzer

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