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Are we able to differentiate between the vocal emissions of certain primates? A team asked volunteers to categorize the vocalizations of three species of great apes (Hominidae) and humans. During each ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers—they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom? Who ...

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Heated disagreements about sexuality and gender are front and center in today's culture wars. Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues in his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years ...

The UNIGE team wanted to find out whether the frontal and orbitofrontal regions of our brain activate in the same way when faced with human and simian vocalisations. Credit: Leonardo Ceravolo The ...

This research was supported by funding from: The National Center for Competence in Research "Evolving Language" (SNSF agreement number 51NF40_180888) Swiss National Science Foundation (project grant ...

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