The literature on the evolution of music is quite sparse, and the topic is often mentioned only
in passing as part of larger proposals concerning the origin of language and the emergence …

The paper will draw on ethnomusicological, cognitive and neuroscientific evidence in
suggesting that music and language constitute complementary components of the human …

The re-emergence of an evolutionary perspective on the human mind over the last decade
has resulted in the production of a range of different theories about music's evolutionary …

This article examines some of the functions of music in human society, and argues for a
restructuring of the current taxonomies, as driven by Martindale's psychobiological theory of …

It is nowadays uncontroversial among scientists that there is biological continuity between
humans and other species. However, much of what humans do is not shared with other …

The origin of human musicality is often discussed within a dichotomous nature-or-culture
framework. While most non-adaptationist views maintain this either/or perspective, recent …

In recent years the relation of music to human evolution has begun to be explored from
many different perspectives. In large part, these explorations are motivated by the sense that …

We seem able to define the biological foundations for our musicality within a clear and
unitary framework, yet music itself does not appear so clearly definable. Music is different …

When we find, and the neurology that we might expect to find, is influenced by what we
mean by the term 'music'. In this chapter, I shall be arguing that what we currently know of …

But this view is difficult to square with much ethnomusicological, and most recent
musicological, scholarship, which would replace music with musics, holding that musics are …