The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...

He is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Prize, Pays de la Loire Chaire Régional de Chercheur Étranger, International Chair in Empirical Foundations of Linguistics,. He has held visiting ...

Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

Russell Gray's research spans the areas of linguistics, animal cognition, philosophy of biology and the evolution of human and animal behavior. He pioneered the application of computational ...

Such features are a reflection of linguistic universality. The Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology seeks out diversity and universality in the realm of ...