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Music, language, and human evolution
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Music, language, and human evolution

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Introduction : music, language, and human evolution / Nicholas Bannan
Music and mosaics : the evolution of human abilities / Robert Foley
The evolution of the human vocal tract : specialized for speech? / Margaret Clegg
When the words dry up : music and material metaphors half a million years ago / Clive Gamble
Hominin physiological evolution and the emergence of musical capacities / Ian Morley
Vocal traditions of the world : towards an evolutionary account of voice production in music / Tran Quang Hai and Nicholas Bannan
Found objects in the musical practices of hunter-gatherers : implications for the evolution of instrumental music / Pedro Epsi-Sanchis and Nicholas Bannan
On the evolutionary function of song and dance / Robin Dunbar
The vocal learning constellation : imitation, ritual culture, and encephalization / Bjorn Merker
Music as an emergent exaptation / Ian Cross
Musicians' performance prosody / Johan Sundberg
Harmony and its role in human evolution / Nicholas Bannan.

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Music, language, and human evolution. ISBN 9780199227341. Published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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