I feel I may have confused you at some point, Salami. My post contains two opposing theories on the origin of music, Pinker's spandrel theory, and Levitin's adaptation theory. The majority of the post is criticizing Levitin's rebuttal of Pinker's theory, and while I think Pinker was a bit of a short-sighted weiner in the way he phrased his points, ultimately, the spandrel theory is the more acceptable to me.
I would be interested to see if we as a group can produce other theories in opposition of these two.
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