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| | | Frontiers explores new ideas in science, meeting the researchers whoÌýsee the world through fresh eyes and challenge existing theories - as well asÌýhearing fromÌýtheir critics. ManyÌýsuch developments create new ethical and moral questions and Frontiers is not afraid to consider these.
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|  | | © Marko Zaplatil
Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU
Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Recent discoveries of bone flutes suggest that man was making music forty thousand years ago.
Cavemen
Peter Evans visits a Palaeolithic caveÌýto see evidence of our ancestors' musicality.ÌýEven playing stalactites came intoÌýtheir repertoire!
But could man's musical abilities have developed much earlier thanÌýthis - more than two hundred thousand years ago?
Standing on two feet
'Yes' argues archaeologist Iain Morley.ÌýÌýHis researchÌýsuggestsÌýour musical voice developed as we started walking on two legs.Ìý And this happened about 1.75 million years ago.
Musical intuition
Music therapist Nigel Osborne and psychologist Colwyn Trevarthen push our innate musicality even further back.Ìý They believe our reaction to music is based on an intuitive mechanism evolved over billions of years.Ìý
Could this intuitive response explain why babies react to music so positively?
Peter Evans explores the evolutionary function of music in the first of a new series of Frontiers.
Next week:Ìý Optical Tweezers - how light can manipulate atoms and molecules. | | |
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