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Population Ecology of Tunes
John M. McBride, Armand. M. Leroi
How cultural repertoires maintain diversity under selection is a fundamental question in cultural evolution. We address this using thirteen years of weekly popularity data for appr…
Contrasting statistical patterns in melodic and molecular evolution reveal distinctive constraints in a culturally evolving system
John M McBride, W Tecumseh Fitch
Evolved sequences can be used to infer the rules of evolution. Orally transmitted folk melodies are evolved sequences whose similarity to protein sequences (one-dimensional, drawn…
What is a Musical Scale? Regularity and Convention in the Organization of Pitch
John M McBride
Musical scales are near-universal in human music, and most readers will feel they already know what a scale is. On closer inspection, however, the literature lacks a consensus defi…
Geometric-Chemical Distance Between Protein Surfaces
Himanshu Swami, John M. McBride, Jean-Pierre Eckmann +1
Proteins recognize, bind, and catalyze through molecular surfaces, where geometry and chemical patterning determine interaction. Comparing these surfaces requires both a geometric-…
Musical consonance: a review of theory and evidence on perception and preference of auditory roughness in humans and other animals
John M. McBride
The origins of consonance in human music has long been contested, and today there are three primary hypotheses: aversion to roughness, preference for harmonicity, and learned prefe…
Information and motor constraints shape melodic diversity across cultures
John M McBride, Nahie Kim, Yuri Nishikawa +3
The number of possible melodies is unfathomably large, yet despite this virtually unlimited potential for melodic variation, melodies from different societies can be surprisingly s…