Wild Calls of Bonobo Apes Sound Simple, but Scientists Find Striking Similarities With Human Language The evolution of human ...

The fact that humans walk on two legs is likely the reason we have developed our rhythmic, musical, and linguistic abilities, ...

The fact that humans walk on two legs is likely the reason we have developed our rhythmic, musical, and linguistic abilities, ...

In a groundbreaking development, China's intellectual property office has revealed that 超聚变数字技术有限公司 has filed a patent for a ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

This insight underscores the complexity of human brain evolution, suggesting that our advanced cognitive abilities arose not ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...