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Musicality and gene-culture coevolution: ten concepts to guide productive exploration

2021-11-28

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<p>A growing number of researchers across the sciences and humanities theorize that human musicality arose via an interplay of cultural invention and biological evolution, or “gene-culture coevolution.” This chapter offers ten concepts to help guide productive cross-disciplinary discussions on this topic. Such interactions across traditional disciplinary boundaries are needed to propel deep explorations of human m...

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Literature Corpus work: c8628de8-3059-5eff-998b-2dec700ee4ca
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qp6jx

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