by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 13, 2007 | Infants, Languages
In the last five years a lot of evidence has emerged about the abilities of babies, and indeed the abilities of monkeys, to make subtle judgments about language. For example, human babies and tamarin monkeys can tell one language from another based upon its rhythm....
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 10, 2007 | Beads, Infants, Ochre, Prehistoric humans, Preserved animals, Twins
Twenty-seven thousand years ago, a human parent or parents buried their ten-month-old twins. They decorated their babies with red ochre and jewellery, and sheltered them under the shoulder blade of a mammoth. The huge animal scapula protected the infants, and their...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Jul 8, 2007 | Altruism, Chimpanzees, Infants
The latest research on altruism in apes may not be as surprising as the selfless rats in the previous post–because, of course, chimpanzees and humans are much more closely related–but it’s all good, solid evidence that sharing can be as sensible an...
