Evolutionary linguistics can help refine (and test) hypotheses about how music might have evolved

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (2021)
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Abstract

Both the music and social bonding hypothesis and the music as a credible signal hypothesis emerge as solid views of how human music and human musicality might have evolved. Nonetheless, both views could be improved with the consideration of the way in which human language might have evolved under the effects of our self-domestication.

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