Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music
- 30 September 2021
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Vol. 44, e122
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x21000030
Abstract
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).This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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