A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A Programmatic Stage 1 Registered Report of global song-speech relationships replicating and extending Ozaki et al. (2024) and Savage et al. (2025)

A new era in the study of global history is born but it needs to be nurtured

A systematic assessment of 'Axial Age' proposals using global comparative historical evidence

An introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank

Author’s response: Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality

Automatic acoustic analyses quantify variation in pitch discreteness within and between human music, speech, and bird song

Automatic analysis of global music recordings suggests scale tuning universals

Automatic comparison of global children’s and adult songs supports a sensorimotor hypothesis for the origin of musical scales

CantoCore: A new cross-cultural song classification scheme

Combining historical and archaeological data with crop models to estimate agricultural productivity in past societies

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world’s music

Comparative musicology: The science of the world’s music

Cross-cultural perception of musical similarity within and between India and Japan

Does synchronised singing enhance social bonding more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report

Does synchronised singing enhance social bonding more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report

Does synchronised singing enhance social bonding more than speaking does? A global experimental Stage 1 Registered Report

Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

Global relationships between musical, linguistic, and genetic diversity

Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report

Group singing is globally dominant and associated with social context

Higher Pitch, Slower Tempo, and Greater Stability in Singing than in Conversation among Mandarin speakers in Auckland: A Registered Report Replicating Ozaki et al. (2024)

How and why to read (and write and publish) academic research

How and why to read (and write and publish) academic research

If lullabies and hero stories are super-attractors, what are music and language? Absolute universals imply genetic mechanisms [Commentary on Singh, 2025, “Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold”]

Measuring the cultural evolution of music: Cross-cultural and cross-genre case studies

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

Perceptual vs. automated judgments of music copyright infringement

Public peer review of Sauvé & Bhachu (2023) “Let’s talk about it: Positivism and critical theory in dialogue”

Public peer review of “A natural history of song” / “Universality and diversity in human song” (Mehr et al., 2019)

Reply to Beheim et al.: Reanalyses confirm robustness of original analyses

Rhythm, synchrony, and cooperation [Stage 1 Registered Report]

Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

Testing the Big Gods Hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’

The Exceptions and the Rules in global musical diversity

Toward a cross-cultural framework for predictive coding of music

Traditional folk music in contemporary Japan: Case studies of standardization and diversification in Tsugaru shamisen and folk song

What is a 'note'? Agreement and disagreement in transcriptions of Japanese folk songs