Human brains wired for language, according to a report in ScienceNOW 24 March 2008. Communicating with complex speech language is unique to humans, and it has long been known that human brains have specialised regions in the frontal and temporal lobes that are used for speech production and the understanding of language. Scientists who study […]
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Gorilla Genome Sequenced
Gorilla genome sequenced according to reports in BBC News, Biology News Net, Nature News and ScienceDaily 7 March 2012. An international group of researchers has sequenced the genome of a western lowland gorilla and compared it with partial genomes of two other western lowland gorillas and one eastern lowland gorilla. They also compared a large […]
Who is Talking?
”I had to speak to a bunch of humans instead” lamented science writer Gail Vines who wanted to talk to chimpanzees whilst gathering information for an article on chimp intelligence for New Scientist, 14 Oct, 2000, p39. One of the humans she spoke to was Daniel Povinelli who has researched learning in both chimps and […]