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The evolution of human music in light of increased prosocial behavior: a new model
2022-01-09
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<p>Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the lead of paleolinguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in the species. In this paper, we advance a new model of music evolution that builds on the theory of self-domestication, according to which the human phenotype is,...
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- 52a56d6e-59dc-59ce-874f-084527567c10
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- 10.31234/osf.io/a8up7