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Human Laughter Up To 16 Million Years Old
An anonymous reader writes "Published today in the journal Current Biology, a new study shows that laughter is not a unique human trait, but a behavior shared by all great apes. Tickle a baby chimpanzee and it will giggle just like a human infant. This is because laughter evolved millions of years ago in one of our common ancestors, say scientists."
They tickled three human babies for this experiment.
Mod parent up, +1 Funny.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
16 million and 1 years ago? Talk about a tough crowd... and no booze or blow to help take the edge off.
After all these years, creationists are still resorting to the same strawman arguments. I guess changing their tactics over time to be more successful would be hypocritical.
A: So what do you do for a living?
B: I tickle orangutan babies and then write about it.
My point is, how do we know the apes are laughing? How do we know they're enjoying it and not just incapable of fighting it off like I was when I was little?
Actually, they were measuring the researchers' laughter. The orangutans didn't like being tickled at all, but the researchers thought it was funny as hell.
It because you have Asperger's.
In other news, scientists have named these 16 million old laughter as "True Laughter". In comparison, the human laughter is named "Hi Laughter", believed to be between 16384 and 262144 years old.
I thought the first sign of humor was the now famous phrase, "is that a banana or are you happy to see me"
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that