A boldly comparative approach will strengthen co-evolutionary accounts of musicality's origins

Luke Rendell; Emily Doolittle; Ellen Garland; Alex South

doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001715

A boldly comparative approach will strengthen co-evolutionary accounts of musicality's origins

Luke Rendell, Emily Doolittle, Ellen Garland, Alex South

University of St Andrews

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Focus on the evolutionary origins of musicality has been neglected relative to attention on language, so these new proposals are welcome stimulants. We argue for a broad comparative approach to understanding how the elements of musicality evolved, and against the use of overly simplistic evolutionary accounts.

Original language	English
Volume	44
No.	E89
Specialist publication	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001715
Publication status	Published or Performed - 30 Sept 2021

Keywords

biology
zoomusicology
music
animal song

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