An orangutan named Rocky is helping scientists figure out when early humans might have uttered the first word. Rocky, who is 12 and lives at the Indianapolis Zoo, has shown that he can control his ...

This is often due to the physical effects of aging that can affect the vocal apparatus directly or arise from an individual’s health. The changes that occur in the larynx, where the voice ...

Some of them can make certain dismal, guttural groans or croaks, others can utter shrill, discordant sounds; but at best the reptilian vocal apparatus is rudimentary in the extreme. Hence in those ...

Testosterone quite literally shapes the vocal apparatus, causing the larynx to enlarge and the vocal cords to thicken during puberty. This physical transformation creates the deeper resonance ...

“That is only possible if our vocal apparatus is easy for our brains to control.” However, Adriano Lameira, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Warwick in the U.K. who was not ...

“There seems to be a special fast path for control of the vocal apparatus in humans that enables humans to produce more different sounds reliably,” Futrell says. Another possible explanation is that ...

This performance prompts a deeper exploration into the capabilities of the human vocal apparatus and its untapped potential in modern music. #BeatboxingRevolution #VocalAnatomy #DlowUnleashed ...

That is only possible if our vocal apparatus is easy for our brains to control,” says Richard Futrell at the University of California, Irvine. “If the system is complex, then it will behave in ...