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Le langage des singes Mone
On savait déjà que l'homme n'avait pas inventé la morale, grâce à l'observation des primates bonobos et leur faculté d'empathie.
Human language has evolved on a biological substrate with phylogenetic roots deep in the primate lineage. Here, we describe a functional analogy to a common morphological process in human speech, affixation, in the alarm calls of free-ranging adult Campbell's monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli campbelli).
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A parrot has grasped the concept of zero, something humans can't do until at least the toddler phase, researchers say. Alex, a 28-year-old African gray parrot who lives in a lab at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, has a brain the size of a walnut.
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