American Journal of Primatology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 87(6)

Опубликована: Май 28, 2025

The evolution of human musicality has attracted immense and intense cross-disciplinary research attention. However, despite widespread interest, there been surprisingly little explicit focus on the conserved roots evolutionary precursors in our closest relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) bonobos (P. paniscus). We here aim to evaluate extant literature behavioral contexts relevant theories musicality, especially simultaneous production acoustics signals by multiple individuals ("collective acoustics"). illustrate importance this evaluating comparing a pair recent, influential, competing (music for social bonding music credible signaling) light reviewed empirical evidence. conclude highlighting core remaining questions future studies great ape collective that may have critical influence understanding musicality.

Язык: Английский