Orangutans crack consonants and vowels to shed new light on the evolution of human speech
Friday, January 9, 2015 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scientist still dont know how human speech evolved from our great ape ancestors. But a study involving Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the Pongo Foundation has uncovered new calls from orang-utans that show fundamental similarities with human spoken languages offering a potential origin point for speech evolution.