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1. • • Evolutionary psychologists argue it conferred significant survival advantages to our ancestors. In prehistoric times, music facilitated tighter social bonding between tribal members. Singing and drumming together released neurochemicals like oxytocin, dopamine, and endorphins, inducing positive emotions that strengthened social cohesion.
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   Does music serve an evolutionary purpose?

   • With little hard evidence, scientists still debate what evolutionary purpose music serves. And because its purpose is obscure enough to warrant debate, some skeptics question whether it serves any purpose at all. Charles Darwin thought it did. In music, he found evidence for his lesser-known theory of sexual selection.

   Where Did Music Come From? Here Are the Leading Theories

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   Why is music important?

   • Journal of Archaeological Research, 15 (1), 1–54. Music is a fascinating topic for evolutionary theory, natural philosophy, and narrative construction: music is a highly valued feature of all known living cultures, pervading many aspects of daily ...

   The origins of music: Evidence, theory, and prospects

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   Does music have a long evolutionary history?

   • They maintain that “music has deep evolutionary roots,” reaching back to our primate ancestors. Honing, of the University of Amsterdam, shares this view. “I still believe in Darwin,” he says. “I still believe that we might share some of these [musical traits] with animals, and that they have a long evolutionary history.”

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   How did music evolve?

   • Subsequently, musical activities and traditions incrementally evolved throughout modernity (from 250 Kya onwards), global dispersal from Africa (currently thought to be from 60-100 Kya onwards), and the Holocene (from 12 Kya). In this article I provide an overview of recent research and a sketch of music’s evolutionary career.

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   Why do humans only listen to music?

   • In 2022, Dr. Patel pointed out, researchers discovered human neurons that only responded to singing — not speech or music played on instruments. “There is something distinctive about song all around the world as an acoustic signal that perhaps our brains have become attuned to over evolutionary time,” Dr. Patel said.

   Why Do People Make Music? - The New York Times

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   Is music adaptive?

   • Viewed in this manner, music is an exaptation, spandrel or evolutionary by-product of other skills. The possible adaptive function of music is one of several indispensable levels of analysis of cognitive and biological phenomena that might underlie musicality.

   Without it no music: cognition, biology and evolution of musicality

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6. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullThe origins of music: Evidence, theory, and prospects

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   Feb 14, 2018 · Music is a fascinating topic for evolutionary theory, natural philosophy, and narrative construction: music is a highly valued feature of all known living cultures, pervading many aspects of daily life, playing many roles.

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   Mar 19, 2015 · Viewed in this manner, music is an exaptation, spandrel or evolutionary by-product of other skills. The possible adaptive function of music is one of several indispensable levels of analysis of cognitive and biological phenomena that might underlie musicality.

   • Author: Henkjan Honing, Carel ten Cate, Isabelle Peretz, Sandra E. Trehub

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8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC4166316The evolution of music and human social capability - PMC

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   Music is a fundamental part of our evolution; we probably sang before we spoke in syntactically guided sentences. Song is represented across animal worlds; birds and whales produce sounds, though not always melodic to our ears, but still rich in semantically communicative functions.

9. www.nature.com › articles › 453287aThe evolution of music - Nature

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   May 14, 2008 · Music is universal, a significant feature of every known culture, and yet does not serve an obvious, uncontroversial function. As such it stands in contrast to other universal human...

10. www.nytimes.com › universal-music-evolutionWhy Do People Make Music? - The New York Times

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    May 15, 2024 · In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors.