A new study offers a glimpse into the evolutionary path toward human language—through laughter. In a new study, ape species more closely related to humans, such as chimpanzees, were able to laugh ...

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Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of Warwick study reveals. The finding offers unexpected clues to how human speech ...

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