Music was the key to our evolutionary progress
Music may, in other words, tap into a brain mechanism that was key to our evolutionary progress.
The ability to recognize patterns and generalize from experience to predict what's likely to happen in the future. In short, the ability to imagine is something humans do far better than any other animal. It allowed us (aided by a far less glamorous opposable thumb) to take over the world.
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Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the "pleasure chemical" dopamine during sex and eating.
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