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42 relations: Adaptation, Altered state of consciousness, Animal communication, Baby talk, Biomusicology, Body painting, Charles Darwin, Cheesecake, Contact call, Croatian language, Dance, Entrainment (biomusicology), Evolution, Evolutionary psychology, Exaptation, Foraging, Harmony, Hominidae, How the Mind Works, Humming, Japanese language, Joseph Jordania, Language Log, Lullaby, Melody, Melody type, Modularity of mind, Music psychology, Music therapy, Musical phrasing, Origin of language, Pitch-accent language, Prehistoric music, Rhythm, Scavenger, Serbian language, Sociality, Steven Pinker, Swedish language, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Tone (linguistics), Vocal learning.
Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called altered state of mind or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.
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Animal communication
Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.
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Baby talk
Baby talk is a type of speech associated with an older person speaking to a child.
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Biomusicology
Biomusicology is the study of music from a biological point of view.
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Body painting
Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers.
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Contact call
Contact calls are seemingly haphazard sounds made by many social animals (such as a chicken's cluck).
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Croatian language
Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language used by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighboring countries.
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Dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.
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Entrainment (biomusicology)
Entrainment in the biomusicological sense refers to the synchronization of organisms (only humans as a whole, with some particular instances of a particular animal) to an external perceived rhythm, such as human music and dance such as foot tapping.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective.
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Exaptation
Exaptation (Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth Vrba's proposed replacement for what he considered the teleologically-loaded term "pre-adaptation") and the related term co-option describe a shift in the function of a trait during evolution.
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Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Hominidae
The Hominidae, whose members are known as great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo, the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; Gorilla, the eastern and western gorilla; Pan, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and Homo, which includes modern humans and its extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as Homo erectus.
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How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works is a 1997 book by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, in which the author attempts to explain some of the human mind's poorly understood functions and quirks in evolutionary terms.
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Humming
A hum is a sound made by producing a wordless tone with the mouth opened or closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose.
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Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
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Joseph Jordania
Joseph Jordania (born February 12, 1954 and also known under the misspelling of Joseph Zhordania) is an Australian–Georgian ethnomusicologist and evolutionary musicologist and professor.
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Language Log
Language Log is a collaborative language blog maintained by Mark Liberman, a phonetician at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Lullaby
A lullaby, or cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Melody type
Melody type or type-melody is a set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns.
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Modularity of mind
Modularity of mind is the notion that a mind may, at least in part, be composed of innate neural structures or modules which have distinct established evolutionarily developed functions.
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Music psychology
Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of both psychology and musicology.
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Music therapy
Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.
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Musical phrasing
Musical phrasing refers to the way a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to express an emotion or impression.
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Origin of language
The evolutionary emergence of language in the human species has been a subject of speculation for several centuries.
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Pitch-accent language
A pitch-accent language is a language that has word-accents—that is, where one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a particular pitch contour (linguistic tones) rather than by stress.
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Prehistoric music
Prehistoric music (previously primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
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Scavenger
Scavenging is both a carnivorous and a herbivorous feeding behavior in which the scavenger feeds on dead animal and plant material present in its habitat.
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Serbian language
Serbian (српски / srpski) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs.
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Sociality
Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (Gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
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Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Vocal learning
Vocal learning is the ability to modify acoustic and syntactic sounds, acquire new sounds via imitation, and produce vocalizations.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology
