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

As a consequence, human communication is bi-directional, conversational, and based on conventions as to how intentions are to be communicated. A particularly interesting example is pointing ...

Bonobos, our closest relatives, may not speak, but they use something strikingly similar to human language. A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that ...

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ago. Bonobos, our closest living relatives, produce intricate and meaningful ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...