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The Material World

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Could the rhythms and music that provoke dance in almost every culture in the world be working on something hard-wired in humans? Quentin Cooper hears from a team of scientists in Manchester who believe that the sacculus - a tiny organ in the ear and a vestige of our aquatic ancestry- may be the piece of circuitry in question.
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Presenter:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Tom Alban

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