The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, by Steven Mithen. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005. ISBN 0-297-64317-7 hardback £20 & US$25.2; ix+374 pp.

By S. Mithen, I. Morley, Alison Wray, M. Tallerman, C. Gamble. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2005

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If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success? (2008, background): “The trend toward difficult births and greater infant altriciality (immaturity) was well underway about 1.8 to 1.6 million years ago in Homo ergaster (Falk, 2004, p. 499; Mithen, 2005) and H. erectus (Flinn & Ward, 2005, p. 31).”
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).”
Singing One's Way to Self-Regulation: The Role of Early Music and Movement Curricula and Private Speech (2011, background): “Music and movement activities have long been popular, predominant, and cross-culturally universal in the play and early educational and socialization experiences of young children (Chen-Hafteck, 1997; Mark, 2002; Mithen, 2005).”
Audio-visual integration of emotional cues in song (2008, background): “A number of theorists have suggested that music is evolutionarily older than speech (Darwin, 1871; Mithen, 2005) and there is little doubt that emotional processing is both adaptive and evolutionarily old.”
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic (2011, background): “Emotions Explaining innovation in the appreciation and use of materials, and their translation into social forms such as composite artefacts, music, art and religion (Lewis-Williams 2003; Mithen 2005) has been the major preoccupation of palaeoanthropologists.”
Feelings and Perceptions of Happiness and Sadness Induced by Music: Similarities, Differences, and Mixed Emotions (2010, background): “For many years, scholars have speculated that music is the language of emotions (e.g., Brown, 2000; Huron, 2006; Maslow, 1976; Meyer, 1956; Mithen, 2006).”
Individual Differences in Music Reward Experiences (2013, background): “A further factor could be related to the capacity of music to serve as a magnet for human social activities and for bonding individuals into groups (Cross, 2001; Freeman, 2000; Mithen, 2005; Panksepp & Bernatzky, 2002).”
Neuromythologies in education (2008, background): “Steve Mithen (2005) argues that it was a characteristic of the Neanderthal brain that it was not well interconnected.”
The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views (2007, background): “Heidelbergensis being referred to as the archaic Homo Sapiens from which both the Neanderthal and the anatomically modern human emerged (Hodgson, 2000; Mithen, 2007).”
Musical Rhythm, Linguistic Rhythm, and Human Evolution (2006, background): “Key words: musical rhythm, linguistic rhythm, synchronization, basal ganglia, evolution R ECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN renewed interest in the idea that human minds have been shaped by natural selection for music (e.g., Mithen, 2005; Wallin, Merker, & Brown, 2000), an idea first proposed by Darwin (1871).”
Liking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure (2008, background): “Music is often said to be the language of the emotions (e.g., Mithen, 2005).”