2025-11-21
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When did people first start using musical instruments and start singing?
Very, very interested in where music comes from and why music even exists in the first place.
And so then if you kind of distill that down and break that down right back to our early evolution,
that's where you get instruments like the conch.
And I'm kind of just fascinated by that instinct that we had to pick up these instruments and use them as tools of creative expression.
That's what we're getting into today on this special episode of The World,
The Universe and Us, all about the origin of music and the evolution of creativity.
Can't help smiling at that.
No, how could we not?
I'm Dr.
Rowan Hooper.
And I'm Dr.
Penny Sarge.