Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music PE Savage, S Brown, E Sakai, TE Currie Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (29), 8987-8992, 2015 | 551 | 2015 |
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding PE Savage, P Loui, B Tarr, A Schachner, L Glowacki, S Mithen, WT Fitch Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (e59), 2021 | 414 | 2021 |
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history H Whitehouse, P François, PE Savage, TE Currie, KC Feeney, E Cioni, ... Nature 568 (7751), 226-229, 2019 | 265 | 2019 |
Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization P Turchin, TE Currie, H Whitehouse, P François, K Feeney, D Mullins, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (2), E144-E151, 2018 | 225 | 2018 |
Cross-cultural work in music cognition: Challenges, insights, and recommendations N Jacoby, EH Margulis, M Clayton, E Hannon, H Honing, J Iversen, ... Music Perception 37 (3), 185-195, 2020 | 140* | 2020 |
Correlations in the population structure of music, genes and language S Brown, PE Savage, AMS Ko, M Stoneking, YC Ko, JH Loo, JA Trejaut Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1774), 20132072, 2014 | 129 | 2014 |
Cultural evolution of music PE Savage Palgrave Communications 5 (1), 1-12, 2019 | 100 | 2019 |
The structure of cross-cultural musical diversity T Rzeszutek, PE Savage, S Brown Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, 1606-1612, 2012 | 96 | 2012 |
Toward a New Comparative Musicology PE Savage, S Brown Analytical Approaches to World Music 2 (2), 148-197, 2013 | 93 | 2013 |
A systematic assessment of “axial age” proposals using global comparative historical evidence DA Mullins, D Hoyer, C Collins, T Currie, K Feeney, P François, ... American Sociological Review 83 (3), 596-626, 2018 | 69 | 2018 |
CantoCore: A New Cross-Cultural Song Classification Scheme PE Savage, E Merritt, T Rzeszutek, S Brown Analytic Approaches to World Music 2 (1), 87-137, 2012 | 69* | 2012 |
Mapping music: Cluster analysis of song-type frequencies within and between cultures PE Savage, S Brown Ethnomusicology 58 (1), 133-155, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution PE Savage, S Passmore, G Chiba, TE Currie, H Suzuki, QD Atkinson Current Biology 32 (6), 1395-1402. e8, 2022 | 50* | 2022 |
Alan Lomax’s cantometrics project: A comprehensive review PE Savage Music & Science 1, 2059204318786084, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in Northeast Asia H Matsumae, P Ranacher, PE Savage, DE Blasi, TE Currie, ... Science Advances 7 (34), eabd9223, 2021 | 47 | 2021 |
Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries N Jacoby, R Polak, JA Grahn, DJ Cameron, KM Lee, R Godoy, ... Nature Human Behaviour, 1-32, 2024 | 46* | 2024 |
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake” H Whitehouse, P François, PE Savage, D Hoyer, KC Feeney, E Cioni, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 124-166, 2023 | 45* | 2023 |
Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank P Turchin, H Whitehouse, J Larson, E Cioni, J Reddish, D Hoyer, ... Religion, Brain and Behavior 13 (2), 167-194, 2023 | 42* | 2023 |
Global music recordings support the motor constraint hypothesis for human and avian song contour PE Savage, AT Tierney, AD Patel Music Perception 34 (3), 327-334, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture A Wood, KR Kirby, C Ember, S Silbert, S Passmore, H Daikoku, J Mcbride, ... PLOS ONE, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |