Well allllrighty then!
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. . . music and language evolved as two specializations from a common ancestor,such that a series shared ancestral features evolved before either analogous or distinct features. This model is distinguished from those holding that music evolved from a dedicated linguistic capacity (music outgrowth model) or that language developed from a dedicated musical capacity (language outgrowth model). It argues instead that shared ancestral features of music and language should be thought of as musilinguistic rather than either musical or linguistic.
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From a pdf. "
THEORIES OF MUSIC ORIGIN" . . . a rather heady but informative text concerning this subject.