The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many non-human primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones ...

New research on rhesus macaque monkeys revealed new insights into human speech. Researchers at Rockefeller University studied the macaque monkey brain to find evolutionary links to human communication ...

Researchers probing the brains of monkeys may have found a new clue that could help them better understand where human speech comes from. They discovered neural networks in the brains of monkeys that ...

For years now, scientists have debated whether spoken language is a skill unique to Homo sapiens. As far as we can tell, animals can’t talk the way we do, but that hasn’t stopped some scientists from ...

Researchers are a step closer to solving one of the greatest puzzles of evolution, after discovering that chimpanzees smack their lips in a rhythm like that of spoken language. Chimpanzee language ...

Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It's ...

A tiny monkey that went viral on social media for his human-like face is not lucky in love. And it may be because he’s a bit of a jerk. According to zookeepers at Tianjin Zoo in eastern China, the ...

Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans ...