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World Service,01 Jan 2004,22 mins

Evolutionary music

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The history of human musical development, discovered through archaeology. There is evidence that humans used music over 250,000 years ago to celebrate social occasions, including a successful hunt. Even today music is a group experience, as the programme finds out.

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