Culture, like genes, evolves, but the existence of cross-culturally universal mechanisms of
cultural evolution is debated. As a diverse but cross-culturally universal phenomenon, music …

Darwin's theory of evolution provided striking explanatory power that has come to unify
biology and has been successfully extended to various social sciences. In this dissertation, I …

Previous research on interlimb coordination has shown that some coordination patterns are
more stable than others, and function as attractors in the space of possible phase relations …

The structure of musical scales has been proposed to reflect universal bioacoustic principles
based on simple integer ratios. However, some researchers who have studied tuning in …

The two target articles agree that processes of cultural evolution generate richness and
diversity in music, but neither address this question in a focused way. We sketch one way to …

Scientists studying music and evolution often discuss similarities and differences between
music, language, and bird song, but few studies have simultaneously compared these three …

Recent advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have impacted the field of
algorithmic music composition, and that has been evidenced by concert performances …

Since generations, singing and speech have been mainly transmitted orally. How does oral
transmission shape the evolution of music? Here, we developed a method for conducting …

Humans are a musical species: we sing, dance, play, or listen, no matter where we are from.
To understand why, musicologists have long studied the rich diversity of musical traditions …

In tone languages, tone is the use of pitch to contrast word meanings; this raises questions
of whether, and if so, in what ways and to what extent, the pitches and pitch patterns of tones …