Evolution of Music Appreciation

Try asking: how does it benefit your reproduction if you play music?

Well, we needn't have done so as such.I can appreciate someone juggling chainsaws, although there was no specific evolutionary pressure that brought us to this point.Music might have originated as a form of showing off: it demonstrates certain skills of concentration, memory, co-ordination, etc, and does so with minimal physical effort or risk of injury. Certainly I prefer it to butting my antlers against those of another male.Alternatively, musical appreciation may have begun as a neurological accident that smart people learned to exploit. By analogy, our brains did not evolve in order that opiates should give us pleasure, but heroin dealers have "evolved" --- in the social sense --- to fill that particular economic niche.