Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ago. Bonobos, our closest living relatives, produce intricate and meaningful ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

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

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

The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

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

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

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

Renowned Linguistic Anthropologist Discusses the Future of Endangered Languages and Cultural Identity TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / April 1, 2025 / Dr. Esther Mi-Jung Park, an esteemed linguistic ...