Singing Neanderthals The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

Name: Singing Neanderthals The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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ISBN: 9780674025592

ISBN-10: 0674025598

ISBN-13: 9780674025592

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steven Mithen

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The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species. Music…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English