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What's The Point Of Music?
"Unwilling to believe that music was altogether useless, Darwin concluded that it may have made man's ancestors more successful at mating. Yet if that were so, you might expect one gender to be musically more gifted than the other, and there is no evidence of that. So what is the point of music?" The Economist 02/05/10
Posted February 5, 2010 08:08 AM





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