Music, Language, and Human Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Language, and Human Evolution write by Nicholas Bannan. This book was released on 2012-07-19. Music, Language, and Human Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The accompanying DVD provides some glimpses of the practice of music in a variety of cultures and illustrates ways of listening to the human voice that reveal its intrinsic musicality. The DVD was edited by Pedro Espi-Sanchis, who recorded further material in South Africa.
The Singing Neanderthals
The Singing Neanderthals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Singing Neanderthals write by Steven J. Mithen. This book was released on 2006. The Singing Neanderthals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of our language instinct. Steven Mithen draws 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.
A Million Years of Music
A Million Years of Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Million Years of Music write by Gary Tomlinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27. A Million Years of Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory. Starting at a period of human prehistory long before Homo sapiens or music existed, Tomlinson describes the incremental attainments that, by changing the communication and society of prehuman species, laid the foundation for musical behaviors in more recent times. He traces in Neandertals and early sapiens the accumulation and development of these capacities, and he details their coalescence into modern musical behavior across the last hundred millennia
The Evolution of Language
The Evolution of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of Language write by W. Tecumseh Fitch. This book was released on 2010-04-01. The Evolution of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history.
The Prehistory of Music
The Prehistory of Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prehistory of Music write by Iain Morley. This book was released on 2013-10-24. The Prehistory of Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen investigation across a great diversity of fields, from neuroscience and psychology to ethnography, archaeology, and its own dedicated field, musicology. Despite the great contributions that these studies have made towards understanding musical behaviours, much remains mysterious about this ubiquitous human phenomenon—not least, its origins. In a ground-breaking study, this volume brings together evidence from these fields, and more, in investigating the evolutionary origins of our musical abilities, the nature of music, and the earliest archaeological evidence for musical activities amongst our ancestors. Seeking to understand the true relationship between our unique musical capabilities and the development of the remarkable social, emotional, and communicative abilities of our species, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in music and human physical and cultural evolution.
