Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA98686, USA. https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen.

Published: September 2021

We discuss approaches to the study of the evolution of music (sect. R1); challenges to each of the two theories of the origins of music presented in the companion target articles (sect. R2); future directions for testing them (sect. R3); and priorities for better understanding the nature of music (sect. R4).

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10625480PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000030DOI Listing

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