The music instinct: The evolutionary basis of musicality

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1169, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-12

  Mithen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolution; Hominins; Music; Sociality

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DANCING; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LIFE HISTORY; MUSIC; PITCH; RHYTHM; SINGING; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; SURVIVAL; VOICE;

EID: 68649101453     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04590.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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