Laughter hard-wired into humans by ape ancestor
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Human laughter can be traced back 10-16 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and great apes, according to new research published recently. Dr Marina Davila Ross, a primatologist of the psychology department at the University of Portsmouth, reconstructed the origins of human laughter by mapping the laughter sounds of great apes and humans on an evolutionary tree...