If music is the food of love, what about survival and reproductive success?

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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): “…hypotheses for the origins of musicality as an adaptation have been developed in recent years, such as enhancing parent and child bonding (Dissanayake, 2008), promotion of mental and social development (Cross, 2007), increasing social cohesion (Merker, 2000), or play beneficial to…”
Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities (2011, unknown): “Principal among these are the needs to find mates and to maintain the integrity of social relations within family groups and communities, the latter including parent–child interactions and affiliative interactions among non-kin members of a social group (Dissanayake, 2008, 2009).”