Evolutionary Models of Music: From Sexual Selection to Group Selection

By Steven Brown. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

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The emergence of music from the Theory of Mind (2009, background): “…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 selection (Dean et al., in press; Miller, 2000) and cognitive development or…”
Infants' responsiveness to maternal speech and singing (2004, background): “It is useful to distinguish between communication in a literal sense, which is best accomplished by spoken exchanges between individuals who share a language or communication code, and emotional communion, which may be achieved more readily by music (Brown, 2000; Peretz, 2001).”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “This idea of a musical protolanguage has proved of enduring interest to scholars interested the evolution of language and music (e.g., Brown, 2000(a); Mithen, 2005; see Fitch, 2010, for an overview and a recent version of the musical protolanguage theory).”
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆ (2010, background): “All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.04.004 of human musicality originated in an ancient, pre-linguistic, songlike communication system comprising learned and complex acoustic signals (Brown, 2000b; Mithen, 2005; Richman, 1993).”
Joint Drumming in Brazilian and German Preschool Children (2014, background): “…synchrony across human societies—irrespective of their possible beginnings as incidental inventions—one should search for some culturally adaptive function, be it in social cohesion, coalition signaling, territory defense, mother–infant coordination, or a bit of everything (Brown, 2000).”
If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success? (2008, background): “Further development of this neurohormonal substrate could have laid the evolutionary ground for emotional and physical entrainment (Brown, 2000; Merker, 2000), thus fostering the creation of feelings of social bonding and even altered states that are experienced as transformative (Freeman, 2000; Oub”
Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities (2011, unknown): “Evolutionary scenarios for the arts invoke the mechanisms of sexual selection and group selection to explain these capacities (Brown, 2000; Brown and Dissanayake, 2009; Miller, 2000; Voland and Grammer, 2003).”
Social Effects of Movement Synchrony: Increased Infant Helpfulness only Transfers to Affiliates of Synchronously Moving Partners (2016, background): “The social cohesion model of musical behavior suggests that music may be adaptive by increasing within-group cohesion (Brown, 2000).”
Identity and in-group/out-group differentiation in work and giving behaviors: Experimental evidence (2009, background): “Variable Mean rank 5th percentile 95th percentile Family 1 1 1 Political views 2.763 2 4 Sports-team loyalty 2.493 2 3 Religion 4.463 3 6 Music preferences 4.546 3 6 Television viewing 6.561 4 9 Food preferences 7.050 6 9 Birth order 8.354 6 11 Dress type 9.255 7 11 Nationality 9.593 8 11 Body type ”