
Best of Summer: The 100-million-year origin story of laughter and humor
Endless Thread
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The Differences Between Laughter and Language
Laughter happens in very close quarters, with tickling and play fighting. But chimps don't tell stories like the Sumerian joke to make each other laugh or bond. Is that because they don't have same kind of language as we do? Partially, yeah. Sometime after 8-6 million year split between chimp line and human line, humans became more complex. And you can see this in how laughter happens in our brains today.
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