In a new groundbreaking study, experts have managed to demonstrate that cotton-top tamarins are able to identify the words in which syllables are placed in an incorrect order. The find holds a great significance for studying the origin of language, and especially for its non-verbal components, which the scientists sa... |
8 July 2009
08:31 GMT |
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While trotting happily through a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, naturalists stumbled upon a new species of monkeys, with an abnormally large tail, and a peculiar gray and dark brown coloring. Aside from its anthropological value, the find demonstrates again that new discoveries in this field of research are a... |
8 July 2009
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In an attempt to understand how humans, as a species, got their general intelligence, researchers at the Harvard University conducted a series of tests on the cotton-top tamarin primates, assessing each individual's ability to perform in them. The study revealed that the levels of cognition varied significantly ... |
17 June 2009
08:52 GMT |
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