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Darwin’s biography defines an agenda for musicality in the emergence of human culture that is receiving considerable attention in several disciplines, presenting a robust case for the contribution which collective and individual musical experience makes to the education of the young, and to the lifelong capacity for musical participation.  \nNatural Selection conveys how the anatomical prerequisites for musicality may have evolved. These conferred a voice that is fundamentally musical in its capacity for the meaningful control of pitch, duration, volume and timbre. This can be attributed to upright posture and bipedal locomotion, their consequences for rhythmic co-ordination, and the independent role in music-making of the feet and hands. Sexual Selection illustrates the means by which musical response and participation pass from parent to child, allied to the clear difference in range between women’s and men’s voices, a further aspect of the musical landscape prefigured in Darwin’s work.  \nThis paper presents accumulating evidence in setting out an agenda for the proper role of music in schools. If music was, in Cross’s words ‘The most important thing we ever did’(1999), the communicative achievement that forms the basis for the subsequent development of language, then it should not remain a luxury available only to those students we select as gifted. Rather, it must take its place as the developmental basis for social organisation, mental integration, and rational thought.  \nKeywords: Evolution, musicality, singing, pedagogy, creativity  \nIntroduction  \nThere is a perceptible mismatch between the provision of music education in many cultures today and the implications of recent research into the role and origins of music in the evolution of the human species. The provision of musical opportunities only to those evaluated early in life as more musical than others is inconsistent with research emerging in neurology, archaeology and anthropology. A new synthesis propounds that we all carry the capacity for musical engagement in our genes, responding prior to birth to its properties as the first interaction of nature and nurture on which our development as social beings depends (Parncutt, 2009; Bannan, 2003;  \nBlacking, 1973). This paper examines the role and practice of music in education from this evolutionary perspective, addressing the question posed by Ian Cross (1999):‘Is music the most important thing we ever did?’  \nYet teachers still administer evaluations such as the Bentley Test (Mills, 1984) or discriminate between those who can already sing in tune and those assumed to be ‘tone-deaf’(Ruddock, 2012). Education providers note teachers’ compliance with such judgements and conclude that schools need make no further efforts to develop the musicality of all their students; and for that reason treat musical ability as a special talent endowed on only the few.  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 13  \nDarwin’s legacy and its impact  \nA frustrating aspect of the literature that has evaluated the impact of Darwin’s life and work is the biased impression that he was himself unmusical, and thus unable to contribute to our understanding of the role and origins of music (Kivy, 1959). Such a conclusion is simply untrue (Bannan, 2017). He corresponded about music with friends while on his travels, including reminiscing about his enjoyment of Evensong while a student at Cambridge; and wrote convincingly about the musical experiences encountered in South America and the Pacific Islands (Tylor, 1871, pp.  \n152, 223). 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