Angela Zhang
speaker
440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
Angela Zhang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Short Wave · Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space · 26 Jun 2026
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They're pretty excited.
Researchers have been puzzling over this for more than a decade, actually.
We talked to Charles Musiba.
He's an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke University who wasn't a part of this study, though even with his excitement, he was also a little cautious.
And what do we have in common?
We play and we laugh.
Many non-human primates love being tickled, especially when there are
like babies that's primatologist kiara de gregorio from the university of warwick her team measured the tempo of laughter in great apes and human children and they just published their results in communications biology they found that great apes like us laugh in a steady rhythm almost like a metronome and they found that the laughter actually changed over time we go from orangutans that are solitary animals
And what can that tell us about humans?
Well, as you heard, the great apes have a pretty cute laugh.
They do.
But it's also pretty regular, that metronome, and they can't really change it, as you also heard.
But humans can.
The human children in the study were the only ones who could actually modulate or change how they laughed.
You can totally imagine those scenarios, right?
Totally.
And laughing like this requires a lot of vocal control, which is also how you learn to speak, which, of course, also sets us apart from the great apes.
April.
Get it?
And marshmallows.
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