Voice control in orangutan gives clues to early human speech

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 08:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to new research. In an imitation “do-as-I-do” game, eleven-year-old Rocky, who was eight at the time of the research, was able to copy the pitch and tone of sounds made […]

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