The language of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized. Even so, it displays constraints that reinforce the singularity of human language, ...

What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey. That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported ...

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While other primates have exhibited simple vocabularies, it has long been believed that syntax, the construction of sentences, was unique to humans. But a recent study suggests that at least one ...