The Surprising Origins of Lyrical Song

How did humans develop song? We dig into the evolution of song to answer this question and shine some light on the adaptive role of song in humans.

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References:

Pan and the Music of Nature, Pauline LeVen.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119275510.ch4

Music as Calming to Infants
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1029864908012001081

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&publication_year=2013&author=H+Honing&title=Musical+cognition%3A+a+science+of+listening

Music as origin of language:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&publication_year=2000&pages=271-300&author=S+Brown&title=The+origins+of+music

Music and memory:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/music-can-boost-memory-and-mood

Bird loss in the US: https://www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says
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