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How Language Evolved from Singing

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Jerome Lewis
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A talk by Jerome Lewis, who teaches at University College London and is one of of the world's leading researchers on the evolution of choral singing and its relationship to the origins of language.

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Autumn 2014
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How Language Evolved From Singing

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