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These Monkeys Learned to Tap to the Beat of the Backstreet Boys. Can They Teach Researchers About the Origins of Human Musicality?
With a bit of training, monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of music. The findings, published November 27 in the ...
Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It’s ...
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Monkeys can tap to beat of human music, have ability to synchronize movement to rhythm
The findings suggest that, although monkeys do not experience music as fully as humans do and require substantial training, beat perception may span a broader evolutionary continuum than previously ...
Everyone loves a good bit of monkey business every now and then. It could be just playing around and being plain old silly. Or it could be an actual monkey doing something rather suspicious. Just take ...
Does a candidate’s appearance affect how we vote? There’s growing evidence that suggests the answer may be yes. In a recent study published in the preprint server bioRxiv (and yet to be peer reviewed) ...
Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...
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