Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer

Last year Science Quickly looked across disciplines to piece apart
the science of singing. To understand why humans sing,
musicologists collaborated on an international study of folk music.
To understand how we sing, neuroscientists differentiated how our
brain processes speech and singing. Music enthusiast and associate
mind and brain editor Allison Parshall takes us through some
hallmark 2024 studies that, taken together, piece together the
evolutionary origins of singing. Recommended reading: Hidden
Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-patterns-in-folk-songs-reveal-how-music-evolved/ 
Why You Can’t Get That Song Out of Your Head
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/why-do-songs-get-stuck-in-your-head/ 
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