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Evolutionary musicology is a term promoted in the edited volume The Origins Of Music as an application of Evolutionary Psychology 's Metatheoretical approach to human music. Examples of theories in this discipline, as documented in the volume, include Geoffrey Miller 's sexually selected fitness indicator approach to human creative abilities, including music; and Stephen Brown 's "musilanguage" model of music-language co-evolution. The most common position of evolutionary psychologists is to assume that proposed cognitive adaptation is actually a by-product of other functions until evidence proves otherwise; Steven Pinker argues for this explanation for human music in How The Mind Works . Another recent hypothesis published by Edward Hagen and Gregory Bryant is that human music evolved as a method of signaling a group's social cohesion to other groups for the purposes of making beneficial multi-group alliances. |
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