The Evolution of Sociality in Monkeys and Apes

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In the evolution of sociality in species like monkeys and apes, where complex social interactions are dictated by vocalizations, screams come to serve another purpose. And that is to solicit support from your friends, your allies, your relatives. So screams evolved in a more complex way and diversified acoustically so that the monkeys can communicate mor subtle details about the fights that they're in.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… a brand new, screaming hot episode of Ologies. Be warned *slaps the top of this ep* you can fit so many screams in this bad boy. (Seriously though, there’s a lot of screaming in this episode, it’s probably not the one to gently fall asleep to.) What kinds of screams you ask? We got birds, foxes, caterpillars, movie stars, children, James Bond? YES. What is a scream? Is it the same as yelling? How far can you hear a scream? Why do we scream at concerts? What’s up with primal scream therapy? Join us as we hoot and holler with internationally acclaimed Emory professor of psychology Dr. Harold Gouzoules for the answers to these and so many more of your questions as we learn about the study of that most animal of vocalizations: screaming.

Dr. Gouzoules’s Emory University Bioacoustics Lab

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