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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2021

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

Shir Atzil, Lior Abramson

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Shir AtzilDepartment 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.ORCID 0000-0002-4074-6777
Lior AbramsonDepartment 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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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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MusicAdaptation, PhysiologicalBiological EvolutionHumansLearningSocial Behavior

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PMID34588048

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