Musicality was not selected for, rather humans have a good reason to learn music.


Journal

The Behavioral and brain sciences
ISSN: 1469-1825
Titre abrégé: Behav Brain Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7808666

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
30 09 2021
Historique:
entrez: 30 9 2021
pubmed: 1 10 2021
medline: 9 11 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We propose that not social bonding, but rather a different mechanism underlies the development of musicality: being unable to survive alone. The evolutionary constraint of being dependent on other humans for survival provides the ultimate driving force for acquiring human faculties such as sociality and musicality, through mechanisms of learning and neural plasticity. This evolutionary mechanism maximizes adaptation to a dynamic environment.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34588048
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2000134X
pii: S0140525X2000134X
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Comment

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e62

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentOn
Type : CommentIn

Auteurs

Shir Atzil (S)

Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem91905, Israel. shir.atzil@mail.huji.ac.il; https://scholars.huji.ac.il/atzillablior.abramson@mail.huji.ac.il.

Lior Abramson (L)

Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem91905, Israel. shir.atzil@mail.huji.ac.il; https://scholars.huji.ac.il/atzillablior.abramson@mail.huji.ac.il.

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