"By the age of 5 we are all musical experts, so this stuff is clearly wired really deeply into us," said Levitin, an eerily youthful-looking 49, surrounded by the pianos, guitars and enormous 16-track mixers that make his lab look more like a recording studio.
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Not all of Levitin's idea have been easily accepted. He argues, for example, that music is an evolutionary adaptation: something that men developed as a way to demonstrate reproductive fitness. Music also helped social groups cohere. "Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago," he said.
I've always held that humankind's musical ability is circumstantial "evidence" of some form of divine intervention in our evolution. Music is a physical way to connect spiritually with others and to our spiritual selves. There is a reason no other animal has musical ability, they have no souls. Anyone who has seen a baby respond to his mother's lullaby, watched a toddler dance, or heard a child sing is instantly reminded of something greater than himself. Music glues communities together by bonding the deepest part of a person, his spirit.
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