Best of Summer: The 100-million-year origin story of laughter and humor
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The Different Types of Humor in Humans
Amory Savorson talks about the difference between involuntary and volitional laughs. Laughter is not something you necessarily intend to do or, like, fake. It's voluntary in the sense that you could stop it in the middle of a laugh if you had to. The Sumerian joke dates back 5,000 years - just as humans were developing the ability to tell jokes.
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