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Introduction: primatological perspectives on language / Barbara J. King -- Viewed from up close: monkeys, apes, and language-origins theories / Barbara J. King -- Primate social organization, gestural ...

Are we able to differentiate between the vocal emissions of certain primates? A team asked volunteers to categorize the vocalizations of three species of great apes (Hominidae) and humans. During each ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers—they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom? Who ...

Human speech isn’t something we’re born with. Rather, we acquire the ability to communicate using speech through a set of developmental stages we pass through as we grow from infancy. New research on ...

A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalizations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own. Are we ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom?