Music's putative adaptive function hinges on a combination of distinct mechanisms

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (2021)
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Music's efficacy as a credible signal and/or as a tool for social bonding piggybacks on a diverse set of biological and cognitive processes, implying different proximate mechanisms. It is likely this multiplicity of mechanisms that explains why it is so difficult to account for music's putative biological role, as well as its possible origins, by proposing a single adaptive function.

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