Gibbon vocal communication provides insights into the origin and evolution of human music and language  

作　　者：Zi-Di Wang Hai-Gang Ma Peng-Fei Fan 

机构地区：[1]School of Life Sciences,Sun Yat-Sen University,Guangzhou,Guangdong 510275,China

出　　处：《Zoological Research(Diversity and Conservation)》2024年第2期130-132,共3页动物学研究（多样性与保护）（英文）

摘　　要：Humans across cultures convey feelings and thoughts through music.Despite its ubiquity,the origins and evolution of music remain enigmatic.Archaeological evidence has traced the history of music back at least 40000 years ago based on prehistoric bone flutes(Fitch,2006).Comparative studies have also explored earlier histories by identifying common musical features between animals and humans(Fitch,2006).For example,songbirds exhibit categorical rhythms similar to human music(Roeske et al.,2020),and humans can recognize emotional arousal in signals across all classes of terrestrial vertebrates(Filippi et al.,2017).These findings,while surprising,align with the longstanding human perception of animal signals as music(Gray et al.,2001).The universality of music and its features intensifies the fundamental question posed by Darwin(1871):how has a behavior that is energetically costly and seemingly non-adaptive evolved to become so widespread?This question can be further divided into two sub-questions(Savage et al.,2021):(1)how do musical features contribute to the production or expressive power of music(i.e.,mechanisms),and(2)how does music benefit performers in terms of survival,reproductions,or other aspects(i.e.,functions).

关 键 词：COMMUNICATION ORIGIN evolution 

分 类 号：Q95[生物学—动物学] J6[艺术—音乐]