[PsychToday] Music, Adaptation, and Evolution

One of the advantages of working on a PhD is that you get to do a lot of reading and re-reading. I find the re-reading more interesting than the initial reading as I read the article or book in a different way, with a different level of depth and understanding.

This happened recently when re-reading a chapter in Peretz and Zatorre’s (2003) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music that considered arguments for and against the idea that music is an evolutionary adaptation…Click to read more

Tagged as: adaptation, evolution, music, music in society, neuroscience