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Beyond “consistent with” adaptation: Is there a robust test for music adaptation?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2021
Abstract
In their article, Mehr et al. conclude that the design features of music are consistent with adaptations for credible signaling. Although appealing to design may seem like a plausible basis for identifying adaptations, probing adaptive theories of music must be done at the genomic level and will require a functional understanding of the genomic, phenotypic, and fitness properties of music.
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