Article CSRH Babblers speak to the origin of language

Babblers speak to the origin of language

by
Henry Nicholls
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Australian babblers are capable of phoneme structuring, the first time this has been demonstrated in any non-human animal

"Holy shit, man!"

Andy Russell had entered the lecture hall late and stood at the back, listening to the close of a talk by Marta Manser, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Zurich who works on animal communication.

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