Songs of Ourselves

A Music is one of the human species's relatively few universal abilities. Without formal training, any individual, from Stone Age tribesmen to suburban teenagers, has the ability to recognize music and, in some fashion, to make it. Why this should be so is a mystery. After all, music isn't necessary for getting through the day, and if it aids in reproduction, it does so only in highly indirect ways. Language, by contrast, is also everywhere but for reasons that are more obvious. With langua...