One year ago we published a review article in Music Perception surveying and summarizing the empirical literature relevant to the evolutionary origins of music. Seven pieces commenting on our review have appeared in the present issue. In this reply we discuss some of the arguments made by the commentators and clarify some of the points made in our original review.

Keywords:
music, evolution, perception, cognition, comparative, monkey
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2006
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