On language and music I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned the fact that some languages actually use different tones or pitch to convey meaning (Thai and Chinese for example). I definitely don't think music developed later than complex language communication. Music itself is quite a basic way of communicating through pure sound rather than a complex word-object relationship and would have been one of the earlier forms of communicating I think along with hand signals etc. Sound used to express basic feelings like joy, grief. If these were then expressed in a more individual way then it might have been seen as intrinsic to that early human and so more creative.
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