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The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

Daniel J. Levitin

Analyzes six evolutionary musical forms while identifying neural impulses that reflect the brain's development in accordance with music, drawing on cutting-edge scientific findings as well as the writer's experiences as a musician to illuminate the sophisticated biological process that accompanies t...

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This book, published in 2008, posited that music became important due to at least six independent evolutionary pressures encoded in the genome.

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and this is something I devoted a whole book to in 2008, The World in Six Songs. The subtitle was How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

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This book, published in 2008, posited that music became important due to at least six independent evolutionary pressures encoded in the genome.

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and this is something I devoted a whole book to in 2008, The World in Six Songs. The subtitle was How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

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