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Evolving Musicality

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 34; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tree.2019.04.016

1872-8383

Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba,

Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

In biology, ‘music’ and ‘evolution’ rarely appear together. And for the layman, the ‘evolution of music’ means, for instance, the process by which the same country over time gave us first Bach then the Rammstein. However, once we move the focus from ‘music’ to ‘musicality’, we are ready to dive into one of the least explored topics in biology [ 1. Honing H. The Origins of Musicality. The MIT Press, 2018 Crossref Google Scholar , 2. Ravignani A. Darwin, sexual selection, and the origins of music. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2018; 33: 716-719 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar , 3. Ravignani A. Humans and other musical animals. Curr. Biol. 2019; 29: R1-R3 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar ]. Musicality, as Honing explains, is a suite of neurobiological predispositions, which potentially enable auditory processing and motoric behaviors in several species. In humans, these traits happen to facilitate production and appreciation of an extremely common cultural artifact: music. But they can also be ecologically relevant for a large number of non-human species. None of these traits need to have been selected for music, however [ 1. Honing H. The Origins of Musicality. The MIT Press, 2018 Crossref Google Scholar , 2. Ravignani A. Darwin, sexual selection, and the origins of music. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2018; 33: 716-719 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (12) Google Scholar , 3. Ravignani A. Humans and other musical animals. Curr. Biol. 2019; 29: R1-R3 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar ].