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

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

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...

(Image Credit: Martin Surbeck, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project) Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine their ...

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

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

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 ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

In human language ... For example, the bonobos used a “peep” as a suggestion, a kind of “I would like to,” while a “yelp” was more of a demand, like “Let’s do that.” ...

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

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

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...