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Article: Researchers find that animals perform and listen to music.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 25, 2001
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WASHINGTON _ A taste for music goes back millions of years in evolution, long before humans split off from our ancestral tree.
Using tools such as electronic brain scans and deep-sea microphones, scientists are discovering that animals such as birds, whales and apes create, perform and listen to music.
Their research casts new light on the origin of human language and culture, and helps explain why music has such a powerful emotional effect on people. Scientists have found that musical rhythms and tones are processed in the older, deeper regions of the brain _ the parts humans share with our animal ancestors _ not in the outer layers where higher ...