Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
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DOI：
10.1017/s0140525x20000333
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发表时间：
2021-09-30
影响因子：
29.3
通讯作者：
Fitch, W. Tecumseh
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作者：
Savage, Patrick E.;Loui, Psyche;Fitch, W. Tecumseh
人类为什么要创作音乐？音乐性进化的理论主要集中在音乐对于特定适应性环境的价值上，如配偶选择、父母照顾、联盟信号和群体凝聚力。综合和扩展以前的建议，我们认为，社会纽带是一个总体功能，统一了所有这些理论，音乐性使社会纽带在更大的规模比梳理和其他债券机制，在祖先的灵长类动物社会。我们将来自考古学、人类学、生物学、音乐学、心理学和神经科学的联合收割机跨学科证据结合到一个统一的框架中，解释音乐的生物和文化进化。我们认为，音乐性的进化涉及基因-文化的共同进化，通过这种共同进化，最初作为文化发明出现和传播的原始音乐行为对生物进化产生了反馈效应，因为它们对社会纽带的影响。我们强调的生产，感知，预测和社会奖励之间的深层联系所产生的重复，同步和协调的节奏和音高，并总结这些联系的大脑网络，生理机制，跨文化和跨物种的行为水平的经验证据。最后，我们解决潜在的批评，并为未来的研究，包括音乐性和人类音乐，语言，动物歌曲和其他领域之间的关系的神经生物学基础进行可测试的预测。音乐与社会结合假说提供了迄今为止关于音乐的生物和文化进化的最全面的理论。
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care, coalition signaling, and group cohesion. Synthesizing and extending previous proposals, we argue that social bonding is an overarching function that unifies all of these theories, and that musicality enabled social bonding at larger scales than grooming and other bonding mechanisms available in ancestral primate societies. We combine cross-disciplinary evidence from archeology, anthropology, biology, musicology, psychology, and neuroscience into a unified framework that accounts for the biological and cultural evolution of music. We argue that the evolution of musicality involves gene-culture coevolution, through which proto-musical behaviors that initially arose and spread as cultural inventions had feedback effects on biological evolution because of their impact on social bonding. We emphasize the deep links between production, perception, prediction, and social reward arising from repetition, synchronization, and harmonization of rhythms and pitches, and summarize empirical evidence for these links at the levels of brain networks, physiological mechanisms, and behaviors across cultures and across species. Finally, we address potential criticisms and make testable predictions for future research, including neurobiological bases of musicality and relationships between human music, language, animal song, and other domains. The music and social bonding hypothesis provides the most comprehensive theory to date of the biological and cultural evolution of music.