Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Key element of human language discovered in Australian bird

Contributed by Charlotte


Source: PLOS Biology


1 comment:

Ms. Ghazarian said...

Hi. This is Ms. Lambert again.

Keep in mind that this study is only describing the behavior of the Australian chestnut-crowned babbler, not all birds. Also, the article is not stating that this behavior, in this particular bird was in any way influenced by human language. Instead, they are just using what they learned from this observation to make inferences as to how language evolved in early humans.