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Sex and drugs and rock and roll

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2021

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Steven Pinker*
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138, USA. [email protected]
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Abstract

This article is extraordinarily rigorous and rich, although there are reasons to be skeptical of its theory that music originated to signal group quality and infant solicitude. These include the lack of any signature of the centrality of these functions in the distribution or experience of music; of a role for the pleasure taken in music; and of its connections with language.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e109
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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