Conference
Evolutionary Models of Music: From Sexual Selection to Group Selection
Abstract
Ever since the publication of Darwin’s Descent of Man in 1871, the survival value of music for the individual has been placed into question. Darwin’s solution to this problem was to argue that music evolved by sexual selection as a courtship device to increase reproductive success. He envisioned music as functioning analogously to the courtship songs and advertisement calls of many animal species, most of which are performed exclusively by …
Authors
Brown S
Series
Perspectives in Ethology
Volume
13
Pagination
pp. 231-281
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2000
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-1221-9_9
Conference proceedings
Perspectives in Ethology
ISSN
0738-4394