Authors
H. Honing
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Marisa Hoeschele
Hugo Merchant
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)
2025-12-09
Title
The Origins of Musicality
Subtitle
Comment to Ghanzanfar & Steingo (2025, Science)
Journal
Science
Volume
390
Publication Year
2025-12-09
Number of pages
1
Issue number
6776
Document type
Comment/Letter to the editor
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.
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