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Music's putative adaptive function hinges on a combination of distinct mechanisms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2021
Abstract
Music's efficacy as a credible signal and/or as a tool for social bonding piggybacks on a diverse set of biological and cognitive processes, implying different proximate mechanisms. It is likely this multiplicity of mechanisms that explains why it is so difficult to account for music's putative biological role(s), as well as its possible origins, by proposing a single adaptive function.
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