{"id":760615,"date":"2026-06-26T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760615\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:23:09","slug":"study-suggests-apes-and-humans-shared-same-laugh-for-15-million-years-oc-today-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760615\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests apes and humans shared same laugh for 15 million years &#8211; OC Today-Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-AFBVV95cUxOUlJCVGgza0JuSFJmVk5xaHlGQXBTcVpJQXBRbHZBTE5qdzZCMFZVZ1BMc2dfWW9DZ2VFUVJjM1hjWGRrSHpybkhVYTE1Szh3SGVvdFI5X3V1UHlkSTQzQnVNSWJ4a2hvTHN1QVZsUndmRm5XdTJvYzFMVm00SDlSYnM2LXM0cDB6eVFtTmJUbXlITzEyNkZyaVRUQUxHRkRZTlROZjBtR1BfdWo1VTYzVlBCRXE0Mld2UE9EclJMLXlSeWxYTjQtQ243bXNpTFFRT3RnYkJGYlVnaXRlSzFEeVRyeE9zNThXNHBack1SRWhzcE9hVl9aTw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study suggests apes and humans shared same laugh for 15 million years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;OC Today-Dispatch<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiX0FVX3lxTE5UNHhNN2FoMXVhMk5UMGJsbzZiZzRjd3R0dmRiY1pjb00wRUVEeWx4alFKMmtmZzVOYjlOU3hQV25wYl9rNzdxMjJ5UzNiVm1xMWlrTDhtd01IRlMtTjQw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum | Communications Biology<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE12X1gtcmNpVEUxWHIwTTZVcFNzLXo4bGJMSllhOTVVbUFsREU1cEsxUnZkTmlyWUJLb1NZaS0tNDUwcmhfNjFvbWF5NDVlc3hqVVdXSmluSkVYdHpPWXRWbWtCRG1FY1prZE5rZ2ZOM2NvTGN1Vl9sTUE0cw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What an ape\u2019s laugh can teach us about human language<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;National Geographic<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxQcW9FZ3dvb3ptWUhkWDI2bzBzV3c4SXVBRjNGb09LbWFSZ3Zvc3JqYU03eWhmWlFpRlZ1YUdBX0FQWE40TTV1cVVTUmVZaWxmdndrd0NFZU9xZmJDZy10NHlQZFc3Yk82VXpBMDB6R2t6X3lKcnZZZmE4SF9xYUlGWldVemRQVDFWVC12VGd0U2swSUhvcExFZUVmalhzVW05?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get a load of this: Humans and great apes share similar giggles<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTE5YcVlEUF9RWUpPamdhc2NaNDQ0Q1dTU1ZJYnpvdmEyOUNPbTFQSEllTTBCQzFUakhyMXB6N2lSeVNZcm1yYjd6bjFJVVJYLTJXVzdMTU83eTBCQzdwRDM5eFV3NVoxVzNEV3BUUGFadDAyQ3d0TFBPamdzQmZHQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists studied the laughter of apes \u2013 and discovered something incredibly human-like<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC Wildlife Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Study suggests apes and humans shared same laugh for 15 million years&nbsp;&nbsp;OC Today-DispatchRhythm and timing in laughter reveal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":["post-760615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}