The evolutionary origin of human kissing

Evolutionary Anthropology, 2024

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Chimpanzee utterances refute purported missing links for novel vocalizations and syllabic speech

with Axel Ekström, Jens Edlund, Steven Moran

Scientific Reports, 2024

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Isochrony as ancestral condition to call and song in a primate

with Marco Maiolini, Teresa Raimondi, Filippo Carugatil, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Daria Valente, Valeria Tortil, Cristina Giacoma, Andrea Ravignani, Marco Gamba

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024

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The ontogeny of nest-building behaviour in Sumatran orang-utans, Pongo abelii

with Junaidi Jaka Permana, Lara Nellissen, Didik Prasetyo, Serge Wich, Carel van Schaik, Caroline Schuppli

Animal Behaviour, 2024

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Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant-like versus vowel-like calls

with Russell Hill

Scientific Reports, 2023

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Wild orangutans can simultaneously use two independent vocal sound sources similarly to songbirds and human beatboxers

with Madeleine Hardus

PNAS Nexus, 2023

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Great apes reach momentary mental states by spinning

with Marcus Perlman

Primates, 2023

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Life of p: A consonant older than speech

with Steven Moran

BioEssays, 2023

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Arboreal origin of consonants and thus, ultimately, speech

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023

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Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype

with Guillermo Santamaría-Bonfil, Deborah Galeone, Marco Gamba, Madeleine Hardus, Cheryl Knott, Helen Morrogh-Bernard, Matthew Nowak, Gail Campbell-Smith, Serge Wich

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022

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Orangutans information broadcast via consonant-like and vowel-like calls breaches mathematical models of linguistic evolution

with Antonio Alexandre, Marco Gamba, Matthew Nowak, Raquel Vicente, Serge Wich

Biology Letters, 2021

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Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for
speech-rhythm evolution

with Andre Pereira, Eithne Kavanagh, Catherine Hobaiter, Katie Slocombe

Biology Letters, 2020

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Understanding language evolution: Beyond Pan-centrism

with Josep Call

BioEssays, 2020

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Orangutans show active voicing through a membranophone

with Robert Shumaker

Nature Scientific Reports, 2019

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Couple whole-body rhythmic entrainment between two chimpanzees

with Tuomas Eerola, Andrea Ravignani

Nature Scientific Reports, 2019

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Time-space-displaced responses in the orangutan vocal system

with Josep Call

Science Advances, 2019

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