Stories tagged laughter

Author Jim Holt consults Darwin and Copernicus and declares: laughter will be mankind’s most enduring legacy.

Tags : math, laughter, evolution

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Laughing it up: Not just for humans anymore.
Courtesy premasagarA new study of contagious laughter among orang-utans could mean the emphatic response evolved from an ancestor common to both humans and primates.

This comes on the heals of the recent post about testosterone's link to humor. That's funny.

Well, maybe.

Tags : evolution, laughter, primate

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