Dan Levitin: The Evolution of Musicality

from The 7th Avenue Project · host Robert Pollie

The best-selling author of "This is Your Brain on Music" returns to our show. Neuroscientist, musician and record producer Dan Levitin discusses his most recent book, "The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature." Levitin contends that music played a key role in human evolution. (Interview originally broadcast in 2008.)

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