The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

what frequently happens when people speak collaboratively today. Someone says a clause,and other voices chime in with variations ...

Note 1.I am indebted to John L.Locke (see 1995,1996) for this notion of talking,but I have my own interpretation of it. Referenc ...

Richman,B.(1996).Why humans can pronounce so many different sounds.Paper presented to the 12th annual Language Origins Society c ...

Björn Merker Abstract Evenly paced time marking in measured music allows us to predict where the next beat is going to fall. Thi ...

Within measured music the musical pulse is not an invariably fixed structural feature,but allows of different treatments of whic ...

rhythmic repetition of signals in conformity with a regular beat or pulse (Greenfield 1994).Such synchrony generally occurs in t ...

males with a reproductive interest in attracting migrating females away from other similar groups of males. But this pattern con ...

keep time even with training (Williams 1967),but may be present in bonobos.Such an ancestral adaptation for entrainment to a rep ...

a form of dancing display (for the correlation between walking rhythm and spontaneous tempo (see Fraisse 1982:154;see also Melvi ...

as a whole,along with a more modest expansion of cerebellar cortical volume (Finlay and Darlington 1995).This means that any sel ...

them with referential functions of language (see also Petersen et al. 1988:587). A possible exception to this lack of referentia ...

(Petersen et al.1988;Sergent et al.1992;Petersen and Fiez 1993;Martin et al.1995;Khorram-Sefat,Dierks,and Hacker 1996;summarized ...

Acknowledgments I dedicate this chapter to Nils L.Wallin,without whose vision of a disci- pline joining biology to musicology it ...

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Marler,P.and Mundinger,P.(1971).Vocal learning in birds.In H.Moltz (Ed.) The Ontogeny of Vertebrate Behavior(pp.389–450).New Yor ...

Thach,W.T.(1996).On the specific role of the cerebellum in motor learning and cogni- tion:Clues from PET activation and lesion s ...

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Geoffrey Miller Abstract Human music shows all the classic features of a complex biological adaptation. Adaptations must be expl ...

selection to function mostly as a courtship display to attract partners. Fortunately,after a century of obscurity,Darwin’s theor ...

these explanations is adequate if music can be shown to be a legitimate adaptation in its own right. Other theorists adopted pre ...