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Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

2020-07-15

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<p>Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger sca...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qp3st

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