Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine ...

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

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

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

(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 ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ...

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

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

This suggests that, like in human language, compositionality is a fundamental feature of bonobo communication. Furthermore, three of the call combinations bore a striking resemblance to the more ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. The study has investigated the vocal behavior of wild ...

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

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