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Humans and apes have shared a laugh for 15 million years, says study

Humans and apes have shared a laugh for 15 million years, says study
France 24 Friday 26 June 2026, 12:57 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Humans and apes have shared a laugh for 15 million years, says study Science Issued on: Share A new study suggests that Great Apes laugh in a similar way to humans. Researchers analysed old recordings of a variety of apes and found that their laughter shared some common characteristics to that of their human relatives, meaning apes may have had a distant ancestor that laughed 15 million years ago. Scientists also say the laughter of apes also provides a clue to the evolution of human speech. [Image text:] CREDIT MARINA DAVILA-ROSS
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