PSY387H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Prehistoric Music, Adaptationism, Proto-Language
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Adapions: traits that emerge due to evoluionary pressures. Adapions evolve through 2 processes: sexual selecion and natural selecion. Sexual selecion: traits that are promote reproducion are selected and passed on while traits that interfere with reproducion are exinguished. Natural selecion: traits that promote survival are selected and passed on while traits that interfere with survival are exinguished. There is a cycle between sexual and natural selecion, both work together and support each other, you cannot have one without the other. In order to reproduce successfully one must survival long enough to have the opportunity to reproduce. Look at modern day funcions and say that these are adapions for a reproducive or survival advantage. 1: music is a complex thing; complexity is seen as an evoluionary process ( adapions of the. Infants are sensiive to musical relaionships without having formal instrucions about them brain and brain structure)
