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Nature 453, 287-288 (15 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453287a; Published online 14 May 2008
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The evolution of music
Josh McDermott1
- Josh McDermott is a postdoctoral associate studying hearing and music perception in the Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
Abstract
In the second of a nine-part essay series, Josh McDermott explores the origins of the human urge to make and hear music.
We think we understand why we are driven to eat, drink, have sex, talk and so forth, based on the uncontroversial adaptive functions of these urges. The drive to engage in music, a compulsion that is arguably just as pervasive in our species, has no such ready explanation.
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