As a species-typical trait of Homo sapiens, musicality represents a cognitively complex and
biologically grounded capacity worthy of intensive empirical investigation. Four principles …

Musicality can be defined as a natural, spontaneously developing trait based on and
constrained by biology and cognition. Music, by contrast, can be defined as a social and …

Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

In the introduction to this theme issue, Honing et al. suggest that the origins of musicality—
the capacity that makes it possible for us to perceive, appreciate and produce music—can …

The diverse forms and functions of human music place obstacles in the way of an
evolutionary reconstruction of its origins. In the absence of any obvious homologues of …

In recent years, music and musicality have been the focus of an increasing amount of
research effort. This has led to a growing role and visibility of the contribution of (bio) …

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 …

Since the 1960s, Swedish musicologist Nils Wallin has been exploring man's biological
inheritance and its relationship to music. This book the culmination of these many years 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 …

I suggest that the question of whether music is an adaptation has been overemphasized in
recent discussions of the biology and evolution of music, because the subtleties of this …