Music as a technology for social bonding: Comment on "Music, empathy, and cultural understanding" by E. Clarke et al.

摘要: From the perspective of evolutionary psychology music can be seen as problematic. Despite its ubiquity there is still no clearly agreed function in terms improving fitness species. Is it therefore fairer to judge ‘auditory cheesecake’ [see 1] rather than attributing with any specific purpose? An alternative argument that plays a fundamental role formation human social bonds, and authors “Music, empathy, cultural understanding” concur view has unique capacity help people connect others [2]. There now evidence even modern world significant effect our bonds on health longevity [3], suggesting hominid ancestors might have relied heavily their network for survival. If encourage these could form powerful tool success