Latest Publications
Generative vocal plasticity in chimpanzees
with Bruno Caneco, Arik Kershenbaum, Guillermo Santamar铆a-Bonfil, Josep Call
iScience, 2025
Vocal Learning Versus Speech Evolution: Untangling a False Equivalence
Ecology and Evolution, 2025
The evolutionary origin of human kissing
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2024
Chimpanzee utterances refute purported missing links for novel vocalizations and syllabic speech
with Axel Ekstr枚m, Jens Edlund, Steven Moran
Scientific Reports, 2024
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
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
Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant-like versus vowel-like calls
with Russell Hill
Scientific Reports, 2023
Wild orangutans can simultaneously use two independent vocal sound sources similarly to songbirds and human beatboxers
with Madeleine Hardus
PNAS Nexus, 2023
Great apes reach momentary mental states by spinning
with Marcus Perlman
Primates, 2023
Life of p: A consonant older than speech
with Steven Moran
BioEssays, 2023
Arboreal origin of consonants and thus, ultimately, speech
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023
Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype
with Guillermo Santamar铆a-Bonfil, Deborah Galeone, Marco Gamba, Madeleine Hardus, Cheryl Knott, Helen Morrogh-Bernard, Matthew Nowak, Gail Campbell-Smith, Serge Wich
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022
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
Chimpanzee lip-smacks confirm primate continuity for
speech-rhythm evolution
with Andre Pereira, Eithne Kavanagh, Catherine Hobaiter, Katie Slocombe
Biology Letters, 2020
Understanding language evolution: Beyond Pan-centrism
with Josep Call
BioEssays, 2020
Orangutans show active voicing through a membranophone
with Robert Shumaker
Nature Scientific Reports, 2019
Couple whole-body rhythmic entrainment between two chimpanzees
with Tuomas Eerola, Andrea Ravignani
Nature Scientific Reports, 2019
Time-space-displaced responses in the orangutan vocal system
with Josep Call
Science Advances, 2019