The anatomy of the auditory region of fossil hominins may shed light on the emergence of
human spoken language. Humans differ from other great apes in several features of the …

Passive acoustic monitoring has become an important data collection method, yielding
massive datasets replete with biological, environmental and anthropogenic information …

This paper presents a new line of inquiry into when and how music as a semiotic system
was born. Eleven principal expressive aspects of music each contains specific structural …

We explore and describe the auditory landscape that emerges from stone tool making.
Using two trained musicians, we identify the pitches and octaves produced from percussion …

The critically endangered Claire's mouse lemur, only found in the evergreen rain forest of
the National Park Lokobe (LNP) and a few lowland evergreen rain forest fragments of …

Primates understand the meaning of their own and other species' alarm calls, but little is
known about how they acquire such knowledge. Here, we combined direct behavioural …

Background Mammals possess unique hearing capacities that differ significantly from those
of the rest of the amniotes. In order to gain insights into the evolution of the mammalian inner …

声音通讯普遍存在于非人灵长类动物(后简称灵长类) 中, 具有维持社群稳定, 防御天敌,
防卫食物资源和领域等功能. 灵长类声音通讯的研究也有助于理解人类语言进化. 我国有3 科8 …

The study of primate auditory morphology is a significant area of interest for comparative
anatomists, given the phylogenetic relationships that link primate hearing and the …

Many animal species are known to show individuality in their acoustic communication. This
variation in individual male signatures can be decisive for female choice. Within the …