Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Study suggests environment may impact apes’ ability to understand declarative communication


Filed under: Origins of language

Psychological scientists Heidi Lyn and William Hopkins from Agnes Scott College and Jamie Russell from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center examined if exposure to different human communicative environments would affect understanding of declarative signals in chimpanzees and bonobos.

Full article: EurekAlert


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