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Why do we have music? Why do we like music? How does music influence the brain? How does musical training influence the brain? Is there a Mozart effect?
From banging two rocks against each other, hitting on a piece of wood with another piece of wood and uttering sounds to playing simple rhythms in a drum with animal skin, humming rudimentary melodies and blowing on a hollow tree branch. From plucking on a string to plucking on many strings, from taking natural formed cavities to explore its resonances to carving out and fine tuning them ourselves.

As humans evolved, so did musical instruments and musical genres: from tribal songs to church choirs and to Mozart, from classical to jazz, from rock to pop, with an unfortunate culmination on Britney Spears. Music did evolve but why did it first appear? Is it an evolutionary adaptation? Charles Darwin, who was a great music lover, posed this question in his book "The Descent of Man". This, of course, is not an easy question to answer, but with the advent of modern brain scanning techniques, we have the possibility of digging a little deeper into it. Peter Vuust, musician and brain scientist, leader of the center of excellence Music In the Brain, will discuss evolutionary theories about the origin of music, and how music and music training influences the brain.