Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...
Bonobos, our closest relatives, may not speak, but they use something strikingly similar to human language. A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that ...
The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...
The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...
Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key ...
Scientists have shown that bonobos combine their calls into complex sound sequences that resemble combinations of human words ...
An expert has explained the hidden meanings behind emojis that parents should look out for - including the cat face, dynamite ...