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Title
Musicality: instinct or acquired skill?
Authors
Marcus, Gary F
Abstract
Is the human tendency toward musicality better thought of as the product of a specific, evolved instinct or an acquired skill? Developmental and evolutionary arguments are considered, along with issues of domain-specificity. The article also considers the question of why humans might be consistently and intensely drawn to music if musicality is not in fact the product of a specifically evolved instinct.
Publication
Topics in cognitive science, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 4, p498