Discover how bonobos challenge our understanding of language evolution, offering fresh insights into communication, ...

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 ...

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Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...

A new study finds bonobos combine sounds in complex ways, offering clues to the early roots of human language and how ...

Human language is probably not as unique as it is thought to be. Scientists at the University of Zurich (UZH) have shown that bonobos combine their c ...

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

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

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

The study challenges long-held assumptions about what makes human communication unique and suggests that key aspects of ...

Unlike his wild cousins in the Congo Basin, Kanzi’s rainforest was a research center ... He was no mirror of humanity — bonobos are their own species, with their own minds — but his life narrowed the ...