Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature > Status Update

“We create because we cannot stop ourselves from doing so. Because our brains were made that way. Because evolution and natural selection favored those brains that had a creative impulse, one that could be turned toward the service of finding shelter or food when others were unable to find it; toward enticing mates to procreate and care for children amid competition for mates.“