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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body (2005) by Steven Mithen.
Blurb:
Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives.
In THE SINGING NEANDERTHALS, Steven Mithen redresses the balance, drawing on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.
The result is a fascinating and provocative work and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless and unimportant evolutionary byproduct.
See also
- John Blacking, Otto Jespersen, Rousseau's "Essay on the Origin of Languages "
- Dylan Evans work on emotions as well as that of Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux.
- Mr. Spock
- Passions Within Reason by Robert H. Frank
- Forgas and Moylan 1987
- Bipedalism
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- Homo ergaster