What Can We Hope to Learn?


  • In 1995, ancient bone flute discovered in Slovenia: between 43,000 and 82,000 years old.

  • Found in a Neaderthal mound.

  • Is music an evolutionary adaptation?

  • Sequencing of the human genome is roughly complete.

  • Focus on musical abnormalities.

  • What aspects of music arise from enculturation? From biology?

  • What else might music be?







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