The Origins of Music: Preface - Preface

“rave”gene that makes them dance every night,doing their group- bonding thing,enjoying their group-competitive advantages over o ...

should not be mistaken for music’s adaptive function,however.If music evolved principally under sexual selection,it would make s ...

more about the calls of the small,drab,neotropical Tungara frog Physalaemus pustulosus (Ryan 1985) than we do about human music. ...

taken as a proxy for the latter.If so,it seems likely that most music at all levels,from local pub bands to internationally tele ...

were literally agents through which sexual selection operated.If both musical tastes and musical capacities were genetically her ...

on music.To students of sexual selection,however,saying that a human adaptation has been shaped by mate choice is to grant it th ...

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Peter Todd Abstract Prehistoric musical behavior did not fossilize very well, and relatively few species are alive today with wh ...

musical production or perception abilities.By tailoring the selective forces of the artificial environment and behavioral endowm ...

culture,and evolution,can all be incorporated into the models,adding greatly to their realism and predictive power.But we must b ...

production or perception;here I describe their use in a compositional role,which has been more common in recent evolutionary mus ...

know much about music,only what he or she likes.This means that the process of evolution does not have to shape a system made up ...

still learning and reproducing largely surface-level features of the example musical input;whereas they should in principle be a ...

of a simulated creature? If so,we must devise an automated fitness- evaluation routine that can check for the presence of this m ...

glacial pace is that evolution builds systems through gradual accrual of beneficial bits and pieces,rather than through systemat ...

This teratogenic power was harnessed more recently by musicians working with computer-based artificial selection systems to gene ...

its downside as well:“A clever representation that efficiently represents alternative solutions,perhaps by excluding clearly una ...

specific knowledge that the artificial artist could draw on in a case base of prior works in the particular genre of interest.In ...