Andrew Huberman· PhD
he explained that song and singing likely came before speech as we know it
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he explained that song and singing likely came before speech as we know it
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That perhaps, and this is the going idea now in neuroscience and evolution of the brain, that singing actually came before finally articulated speech and language, that voice involved first to sing, to communicate.
And the genomics point to the fact that song and singing came first and language came second.
it's very likely that singing evolved prior to spoken language and that music singing and dance together evolved prior to language making music as well as singing and dance but really just music even on its own in the absence of any lyrics or any bodily movement as the fundamental form of human communication