This essay offers a new perspective on Darwin’s evolutionary theorizing on the human arts of music, poetry and rhetoric. It argues that Darwin’s theory of the human arts is primarily a theory of their effects on our emotions. Contrary to the topical understanding Darwin nowhere claimed that the music of homo sapiens sapiens used to be performed, let alone still is performed in the service of sexual success. He exclusively stipulated that some such evolutionary attractor might have shaped the vocal arts of our «half-human ancestors». In the human music proper, by contrast, he sees this archaic function only persist as a cognitively vague, yet intensely felt «mental reversion to the emotions and thoughts of a long-past age», as widely unconsc...
One of the most striking applications of Darwinian principles resides in the evolutionary account of...
Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integra...
In recent years the relation of music to human evolution has begun to be explored from many differen...
This essay offers a new perspective on Darwin’s evolutionary theorizing on the human arts of music, ...
This essay on Darwin’s evolutionary theory of human music, rhetoric and poetry will first portray th...
Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving forc...
This paper deals with the discourses on music in Herbert Spencer’s and Charles Darwin’s theories of...
It is nowadays uncontroversial among scientists that there is biological continuity between humans a...
In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for research o...
How does a theory impose itself in scientific circles? This essay seeks to answer this question...
Throughout human history, people have developed the faculty to appreciate and create music. Musical ...
ABSTRACT: In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for ...
Music possesses common attributes across cultures which exploit the human capacity to entrain to ext...
Humans devote ample time to produce and perceive music. How and why this behavioral propensity origi...
The origin of human musicality is often discussed within a dichotomous nature-or-culture framework. ...
One of the most striking applications of Darwinian principles resides in the evolutionary account of...
Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integra...
In recent years the relation of music to human evolution has begun to be explored from many differen...
This essay offers a new perspective on Darwin’s evolutionary theorizing on the human arts of music, ...
This essay on Darwin’s evolutionary theory of human music, rhetoric and poetry will first portray th...
Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving forc...
This paper deals with the discourses on music in Herbert Spencer’s and Charles Darwin’s theories of...
It is nowadays uncontroversial among scientists that there is biological continuity between humans a...
In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for research o...
How does a theory impose itself in scientific circles? This essay seeks to answer this question...
Throughout human history, people have developed the faculty to appreciate and create music. Musical ...
ABSTRACT: In this paper, I briefly review some comparative data that provide an empirical basis for ...
Music possesses common attributes across cultures which exploit the human capacity to entrain to ext...
Humans devote ample time to produce and perceive music. How and why this behavioral propensity origi...
The origin of human musicality is often discussed within a dichotomous nature-or-culture framework. ...
One of the most striking applications of Darwinian principles resides in the evolutionary account of...
Studies of the biology of music (as of language) are highly interdisciplinary and demand the integra...
In recent years the relation of music to human evolution has begun to be explored from many differen...