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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Baboons Can Identify Specific Combinations of Letters in Words

New results show that monkeys identify specific combinations of letters in words and detect anomalies -- a capacity that certainly existed before speech.


Posted by Dr CLÉiRIGh at 07:38
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