Mary King investigates how advances in knowledge of anatomy are changing the way people sing. With contributions from Andrew Watts, Toby Spence and Connie Fisher. Show more Mary King investigates how ...

Monkeys known as macaques possess the vocal anatomy to produce "clearly intelligible" human speech but lack the brain circuitry to do so, according to new research. The findings -- which could apply ...

Classical Voice Season on BBC Radio 3, BBC Two, BBC Four and online celebrates the art of classical singing across three weeks of special broadcasts from 15 June to 4 July including a three-day ...

Can monkeys talk? It may seem like a silly question, but a 2016 study demonstrated that macaques, the most widespread primate genus after humans, are physically capable of producing human speech but ...

It sounds like the gentle whisper of someone proposing marriage. But the recording below is actually the sound of how a monkey could speak, if it had the brain power for language. Scientists at ...

New research shows that macaques have a vocal tract capable of emitting human-like speech, but they lack the brain circuitry to make words happen. That may be a good thing, because their simulated ...

Monkey’s can’t talk because they lack the brain power to do so confirming a theory first proposed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago, a new study found. Scientists have been divided over why monkeys ...

Why did humans evolve to talk, while monkeys were left to hoot, squeak and grunt to communicate? The question has long puzzled scientists, who blamed our closest primate cousins’ inability to ...