Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

This late-19th century robe from the Nuxalk people at Bella Coola is one of more than 60 treasures in the first-ever ...

These weapons were used to resist the crew of the Endeavour. Until recently, they were in a museum basement in England.

Mexico celebrated having dodged the latest round of tariffs from the White House taking aim at dozens of U.S. trading ...

Attacks against Christians, especially Catholics, are on the rise in both Europe and Latin America, according to various ...

The Martlet attended the research fair on March 19 to learn about the exciting and important work UVic undergraduates are currently doing.

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...