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Is it known when humans or our ancestors first started to sing?
Joshua Bamford
Jyväskylä, Finland
Identifying the exact moment when humans began to sing is a difficult task. Unfortunately, songs don’t fossilise or leave many artefacts, at least until the invention of written musical notation and audio recordings. The best we can do is give an…
