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The (co)evolution of language and music under human self-domestication

2022-02-27

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<p>Purpose. Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in our species. Methods. In this paper, we advance a new model of music evolution that builds on the self-domestication view of human evolution, according to which the human phenotype...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xfbqn

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