Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Monkey gossip hints at social origins of language


Filed under: Origins of language

Women may be fed up with being stereotyped as the chattier sex, but the cliche turns out to be true – in female-centric monkey groups at least. The gossipy nature of female macaques also adds weight to the theory that human language evolved to forge social bonds.

Full article: New Scientist


See also:

>  Monkey gossip hints at social origins of language
>  Primate communication linked to social bonding
>  Monkeys know one monkey voice from another
>  From Squeak to Syntax: Language’s Incremental Evolution
>  Monkeys Use “Sentences,” Study Suggests

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Comment by boris 23 Dec 2008 at 6:54 pm

This was already posted.


Comment by Vili Maunula 23 Dec 2008 at 10:25 pm

Well spotted! I should have paid more attention to that nagging feeling, and even more importantly, should have checked the date of the article.


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