Savage et al. and Mehr et al. provide well-substantiated arguments that the evolution of musicality was shaped by adaptive functions of social bonding and credible signalling. However, they are too quick to dismiss byproduct explanations of music evolution, and to present their theories as complete unitary accounts of the phenomenon
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
adaptation has been overemphasized in recent discus-sions of the biology and evolution of music, bec...
I suggest that the question of whether music is an adaptation has been overemphasized in recent disc...
International audienceWe propose an approach reconciling the ultimate-level explanations proposed by...
Mehr et al.'s hypothesis that the origins of music lie in credible signaling emerges here as a stron...
Although it can be straightforward to define the features of physical traits, complex cultural categ...
Music provides a challenging system for the analysis of cultural evolution. The dialectical approach...
The diverse forms and functions of human music place obstacles in the way of an evolutionary reconst...
Music provides a challenging system for the analysis of cultural evolution. The dialectical approach...
It is nowadays uncontroversial among scientists that there is biological continuity between humans a...
We argue for an approach to the theory of music which starts from the position that music is primari...
Is musicality an individual level adaptation? The authors of this target article reject the need for...
In A Million Years of Music, Gary Tomlinson develops an extensive evolutionary narrative that emphas...
The philosophical and scientific explication of music is a cutting-edge field in contemporary academ...
This paper deals with the discourses on music in Herbert Spencer’s and Charles Darwin’s theories of...
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
adaptation has been overemphasized in recent discus-sions of the biology and evolution of music, bec...
I suggest that the question of whether music is an adaptation has been overemphasized in recent disc...
International audienceWe propose an approach reconciling the ultimate-level explanations proposed by...
Mehr et al.'s hypothesis that the origins of music lie in credible signaling emerges here as a stron...
Although it can be straightforward to define the features of physical traits, complex cultural categ...
Music provides a challenging system for the analysis of cultural evolution. The dialectical approach...
The diverse forms and functions of human music place obstacles in the way of an evolutionary reconst...
Music provides a challenging system for the analysis of cultural evolution. The dialectical approach...
It is nowadays uncontroversial among scientists that there is biological continuity between humans a...
We argue for an approach to the theory of music which starts from the position that music is primari...
Is musicality an individual level adaptation? The authors of this target article reject the need for...
In A Million Years of Music, Gary Tomlinson develops an extensive evolutionary narrative that emphas...
The philosophical and scientific explication of music is a cutting-edge field in contemporary academ...
This paper deals with the discourses on music in Herbert Spencer’s and Charles Darwin’s theories of...
Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function...
adaptation has been overemphasized in recent discus-sions of the biology and evolution of music, bec...
I suggest that the question of whether music is an adaptation has been overemphasized in recent disc...
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