
Why laughter is the best medicine
6 Minute English
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The Study of Laughing
Laughing is a variation of breathing, it involves the rib cage. The ha, ha sound you make when you laugh comes from your rib cage. Professor sophie scott calls this a very primitive way of making sounds because it's simple and natural. Primitive can be used to describe anything relating to the basic way humans lived at their early stages of development before money or machines were invented.
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