A new study shows monkeys can perceive and sync to a musical beat, challenging assumptions about rhythm, evolution, and ...
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Whale songs are very similar to human language, study finds
Language has long been seen as a defining trait of human intelligence. Unlike the communication systems of other species, ...
Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...
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Whale Songs Follow the Same Mathematical Rule as Human Language
In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...
John Gowlett receives funding from PAST Africa and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and his work has previously been supported by The Leverhulme Trust. He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human ...
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