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All human cultures make and listen to music, but there doesn't appear to be any evolutionary adaptive reason for it. So why do we do it? Neuroscientists, psychologists and musicians explore what drives us to make music--for pleasure, not survival. They say this quintessential human behavior transforms our world.

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