on music.To students of sexual selection,however,saying that a human
adaptation has been shaped by mate choice is to grant it the least reduc-
tionistic,most humane origin as a part of the mind selected by minds like
ours for its ability to provide mental and emotional enjoyment.Music
arose as a natural outcome of psychology mixing with sexuality in the
genetic stream that became humanity.References
Andersson,M.(1994).Sexual Selection.Princeton,NJ:Princeton University Press.
Arom,S.(1991).African Polyphony and Polyrhythm.Cambridge,UK:Cambridge Univer-
sity Press.
Balmford,A.(1991).Mate choice on leks.Trends in Ecology and Evolution6:87–92.
Basolo,A.L.(1990).Female preference predates the evolution of the sword in swordfish.
Science250:808–810.
Bickerton,D.(1995).Language and Human Behavior.Seattle:University of Washington
Press.
Blacking,J.(1976).How Musical Is Man? London:Faber and Faber.
Blacking,J.(1987).A Commonsense View of all Music.Cambridge,UK:Cambridge
University Press.
Boyd,R.and Richerson,P.J.(1990).Group selection among alternative evolutionarily
stable strategies.Journal of Theoretical Biology145:331–342.
Burley,N.(1988).Wild zebra finches have band-color preferences.Animal Behavior
36:1235–1237.
Buss,D.M.and Schmitt,P.(1993).Sexual strategies theory:An evolutionary perspective
on human mating.Psychological Review100:204–232.
Carr,I.,Fairweather,D.,and Priestley,B.(1988).Jazz:The Essential Companion.London:
Paladin.
Catchpole,C.K.(1987).Birdsong,sexual selection and female choice.Trends in Evolution
and Ecology2:94–97.
Catchpole,C.K.and Slater,P.J.B.(1995).Bird Song:Biological Themes and Variations.
Cambridge,UK:Cambridge University Press.
Cronin,H.(1991).The Ant and the Peacock:Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to
Today.Cambridge,UK:Cambridge University Press.
Daly,M.and Wilson,M.(1988).Homicide.New York:Aldine.
Daly,M.and Wilson,M.(1994).Evolutionary psychology of male violence.In J.Archer
(Ed.) Male Violence(pp.253–288).London:Routledge.
Darwin,C.(1862).On the Various Contrivances by which Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects.
London:Murray.
Darwin,C.(1871).The Descent of Man,and Selection in Relation to Sex(2 vols.).London:
Murray.
Dawkins,R.(1976).The Selfish Gene.Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Dawkins,R.(1996).Climbing Mount Improbable.London:Penguin Books.
Dawkins,R.and Krebs,J.R.(1978).Animal signals:Information or manipulation? In J.R.
Krebs and N.B.Davies (Eds.) Behavioral Ecology:An Evolutionary Approach(pp.
282–309).Oxford:Blackwell Scientific.
Dissanayake,E.(1988).What Is Art for? Seattle:University of Washington Press.
Dissanayake,E.(1992).Homo aestheticus:Where Art Comes from and Why.New York:
Free Press.
Endler,J.A.(1992).Signals,signal conditions,and the direction of evolution.American
Naturalist139:S125–S153.357 Evolution of Human Music through Sexual Selection