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Science 12 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5699, pp. 1120 - 1122
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5699.1120
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EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR:
Seeking the Key to Music

Michael Balter

READING, ENGLAND--Why did the ability to carry a tune evolve? At an unusual, high-level meeting, researchers pondered whether music helped our ancestors survive and reproduce or whether it is merely a happy evolutionary accident.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Evolution of Music in Comparative Perspective.
W T. FITCH (2005)
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1060, 29-49
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