New research on rhesus macaque monkeys revealed new insights into human speech. Researchers at Rockefeller University studied the macaque monkey brain to find evolutionary links to human communication ...

The throat and facial movements that twist the air pushing through your vocal cords into words could be rooted in the well-meaning expressions primates exchange with each other, according to two ...

Researchers probing the brains of monkeys may have found a new clue that could help them better understand where human speech comes from. They discovered neural networks in the brains of monkeys that ...

Humans do it. Chimps do it. Why shouldn't monkeys do it, too? Mimicry exists throughout the animal kingdom, but imitation with a purpose -- matching one's behavior to others' as a form of social ...