Cultural evolution
- Author(s)
- Marisa Hoeschele, W. Tecumseh Fitch
- Abstract
A new study finds that melodies evolve in similar ways, reminiscent of genetic evolution, across cultures. Patterns of change in music and other aesthetic domains may be the key to understanding how culture evolves when unfettered by physical or ecological constraints.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Journal
- Current Biology
- Volume
- 32
- Pages
- R265-R267
- ISSN
- 0960-9822
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.080
- Publication date
- 03-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106051 Behavioural biology
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/cultural-evolution(c142305d-469f-4360-afa7-3a91783877c4).html