Physiology of music: a comparative approach
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Music, neuroscience, comparative physiologyAbstract
Around the world in many different cultures, you can find people producing or enjoying music. Still, we cannot tell consensualy if there is any adaptive advantages in music and why it is distributed around the globe unrestrictedly. Was Darwin right in suggesting that music comes from ancient times, with our ancestors? But what about other species? Can they produce or enjoy music? If yes, for pleasure/art, as appears to be for man, or as simple instinct? The evidences for answering these questions begin to be found. We here review the neurophysiological mechanisms that allow the existence of music for man and in what ways it manifests itself in other species.
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