The Origins of Musicality
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| Publication date | 09-12-2025 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | Issue number | 390 | 6776 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
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| Abstract |
Ghazanfar and Steingo open their Perspective by asserting that,
because no fossil or archaeological record of early music-making exists,
modern researchers “rely as much on conjecture as they did in Darwin
and Spencer’s time.” This characterization is inaccurate. The evolution
of musicality can be reconstructed using methods from comparative
biology, genetics, and cross-cultural analyses, empirical domains that
were unavailable to Darwin and Spencer. |
| Document type | Comment/Letter to the editor |
| Note | Comment (eLetter) to: A.A. Ghazanfar, G. Steingo (2025)Groove to the music : What can tapping macaques reveal about the evolution of musicality? in Science, v. 390, iss. 6776, pp. 884-885. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec8640 |
| Published at | https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8640#elettersSection https://musiccognition.blogspot.com/2026/01/no-progress-since-darwin-and-spencers.html |
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Honing et al. (2025) Science eLetter
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