Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

Humans and great apes show similar rhythmic patterns in their laughter when they are tickled. The characteristic feature of evenly repeated intervals between bursts of laughter, a ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it's been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...

Laughter feels deeply human. It appears in conversations, family gatherings, awkward moments and bursts of joy. Yet the roots of that familiar sound stretch much further back than human history itself ...