A Kazoo And The Evolution Of Speech

Short Wave

NPR

Daily News, Nature, Life Sciences, Astronomy, Science, News

4.7 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Encore episode. Researchers discovered that this simple instrument could offer insights into the evolution of human speech. Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talks with primatologist Adriano Lameira about a growing body of evidence that humans may not be the only great apes with voice control.

Read the paper he published last year.

P.S. Sign up for our trivia night this Tuesday, June 23, at 8 pm EDT!

Follow Maddie Sofia @maddie_sofia and Emily Kwong @emilykwong1234. Email the show at [email protected].

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody, Emily Quang here.
0:01.6	Maddie Sophia too.
0:02.6	We are hard at work on some really great new episodes.
0:05.6	So in the meantime, we're breaking out an old episode you might have missed.
0:10.1	That way both Cherish.
0:11.6	It really sealed our bond.
0:13.0	I mean, Quang, this is the episode that inspired my very first gift to you.
0:17.9	How could I forget Maddie Sophia?
0:20.3	Oh, you've gotten better at that.
0:24.9	So stick around past the end because we also have a very special announcement to share with you.
0:29.9	And if you haven't subscribed to or followed shortwave yet, first of all, how dare you?
0:35.7	Second of all, we forgive you.
0:37.7	Especially if you go ahead and do that right now.
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.9	Thank you so much.
0:42.9	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:47.4	Hey everybody, Maddie Sophia here with shortwave reporter Emily Quang.
0:51.3	Hey Maddie, hey you.
0:52.8	So Quang, you've got a story today about the evolution of voicing.
0:56.7	That's right.
0:57.7	The voice of this guy, a primatologist.
1:00.1	Hi, my name is Vydean Lamayra.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.