The evolution of music as artistic cultural innovation expressing intuitive thought symbolically

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44:e91 (2021)
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Abstract

Music is an artistic cultural innovation, and therefore it may be considered as intuitive thought expressed in symbols, which can efficiently convey multiple meanings in learning, thinking, and transmission, selected for and passed on through cultural evolution. The symbolic system has personal adaptive benefits besides social ones, which should not be overlooked even if music may tend more to the latter.

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