So, what is it to be human? Unlike Homo sapiens, we’re grown in a radically different petri dish. Our habitat is filled with cultural artifacts—the two heavyweights being language and music—designed to harness our brains’ ancient capabilities and transform them into new ones.
Humans are more than Homo sapiens. Humans are Homo sapiens who have been nature-harnessed into an altogether novel creature, one designed in part via natural selection, but also in part via cultural evolution.
Mark Changizi, author of Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man, on whether we are “meant” to have language and music – a fascinating complement to the ongoing question of what it means to be human.
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