Could chimpanzees hold a key to the evolution of human language? A recent study reveals complex vocal combinations in our ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. From using forest herbs as medicine to creating and using tools, these ...

Chimpanzees are unable to produce the sounds (phonemes) that comprise human language. (In this blog I will only have room to describe attempts to teach American Sign Language, or ASL, a gestural ...

It’s their own private sign. “There are so many ... a continuing debate about the nature of chimpanzee gestures and, perhaps, the roots of human language. Some researchers have suggested ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language. Chimpanzees drum and make calls to communicate. Two new studies have found ...

A “grunt + hoo” is made mostly during travel or the merger of chimp groups. Previous work delving into the evolutionary origins of language in nonhuman animals had shown that species typically ...

Washoe, a chimpanzee born in West Africa in 1965, was credited with being the first non-human to acquire a human language, American Sign Language, according to the nonprofit organization ...

So far, Matsuzawa told me, preliminary data suggest the chimpanzees do, in fact, understand the meaning of the words. Captive chimps have long been taught sign language or other communication ...

The study reveals four ways in which chimpanzees alter meanings when combining single calls into 16 different two-call combinations, analogous to the key linguistic principles in human language ...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...