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Professor Armand Leroi tracks the evolution of song around the globe to trace its beginnings
How was music started? What role id music have in early humans? What was the first song? Armand Leroi, an evolutionary developmental biologist at Imperial College, has been applying the techniques used by geneticists and linguists to track the movements of people across the globe. His starting points have been the polyrhythmic chants of Xhosa farmers and the grunts of Siberian pastoralists. He reveals their meanings and their connections. Professor Leroi is author and presenter of the widely-acclaimed BBC4 film "What Darwin didn't know" about recent scientific advances, and author of "Mutants", a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar.
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30 April 2009 at 7:00 pm |
Duration: | 2 hours |
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Friends of Imperial College |
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£3 - £10 |
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admin@friendsofimperial.org.uk |
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Lecture being held at Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Road, London SW7 2AZ |
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