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Musical features emerging from a biocultural musicality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

Tudor Popescu Open the ORCID record for Tudor Popescu [Opens in a new window] ,
Nathan Oesch  and
Bryony Buck
Tudor Popescu
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria tudor.popescu@univie.ac.at, tudorpopescu.com Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Nathan Oesch
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada nathanoesch@yahoo.com
Bryony Buck
Affiliation:
Institute of Musicians' Medicine, Carl Maria von Weber University of Music, Wettiner Platz 13, 01067 Dresden, Germany. bryony.buck@gmail.com
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Abstract

Savage et al. make a compelling case, Mehr et al. less so, for social bonding and credible signalling, respectively, as the main adaptive function of human musicality. We express general advocacy for the former thesis, highlighting: (1) overlap between the two; (2) direct versus derived biological functions, and (3) aspects of music embedded in cultural evolution, for example, departures from tonality.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e87
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