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Pre-hunt charade as the cradle of human musicality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2021
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Human language and human music are both unique communication systems that evolved in the human lineage. Here, I propose that they share the same root, they evolved from an ancestral communication system yet to be described in detail. I suggest that pre-hunt charade was this shared root, which helped organize and coordinate the hunt of early hominins.
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