Evolution of human music through sexual selection.

By G. Miller. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Voxel-Based Morphometry Reveals Increased Gray Matter Density in Broca's Area in Male Symphony Orchestra Musicians (2002, background): “From an evolutionary viewpoint, it has been suggested, originally by Darwin (1871), that musical performance is a sexually selected trait with no associated survival benefit at the level of the individual in that music performance appears to have no adaptive value in surviving predation or infection”
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆ (2010, background): “Analogous to bird song during courtship, Darwin suggested that music-like behaviors first evolved by means of sexual selection, as individuals advertised for mates (for an extended argument see Miller, 2000).”
The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “Among the current adaptationist theories are proposals that musical behaviours were selected because they promote the mother-infant bonds (Dissanayake, 2000a; Falk, 2004; Trehub, 2001), social bonds and group coordination (Brown, 2000a; Dunbar, 1993, 1996; Kogan, 1997; Roederer, 1984), sexual select”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “The sexual selection theory of human music has been explored by Miller (2000) and others, and continues to attract interest.”
Did sexual selection shape human music? Testing predictions from the sexual selection hypothesis of music evolution using a large genetically informative sample of over 10,000 twins (2015, background): “However, variation in cognitive ability (asmeasured by intelligence tests) is not directly observable, but can only be indirectly communicated through exhibition of complex behavior, such as music production (Miller, 2000a, 2000d).”
STEVENS' HANDBOOK OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2002, background): “, & Heinmiller, B. M. (1998). The development of evaluative responses to music: Infants prefer to listen to consonance over dissonance.”
Individual Differences in Music Reward Experiences (2013, background): “In this regard, some authors (Miller, 2000) have suggested that music has a sexual-selection origin similar to the songs produced by songbirds.”
Does music induce emotion? A theoretical and methodological analysis. (2008, background): “An important example of a possible multisegment route from music to emotion is one that runs from physiological and motor responses to dance (cf. Dibben, 2004) and sexual display (cf. Miller, 2000), and, from there, to cognitive labeling and reattribution.”
Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves (2009, background): “Miller (2000) has recently taken up Darwin’s astute suggestion that this might also explain the evolutionary origins of human music (Darwin, 1871).”