Musical Protolanguage and Social Bonding

Research line holding that song, prosody, turn-taking and choral synchrony preceded grammatical language and bonded groups (Darwin 1871 to Mithen, Fitch, Brown, Jordania; synchrony and bonding studies by Dunbar, Pearce, Launay, Wiltermuth and Heath; the gesture-first and multimodal rivals Corballis, Arbib, Levinson and Holler). Anchor for Renaissance 3.0's voice-before-grammar thesis (MODEL) and for antiphony as the vocal form of philophily.

· 1871– · active