A viral video of a young gorilla bursting into laughter-like sounds while being gently tickled by a familiar human caretaker ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

Words vanish the instant they’re spoken, and no skeleton can tell us when our ancestors first started talking. So how can ...

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...

Discover how tickling apes and recording their bursts of laughter revealed a similar pattern to how humans laugh, while ...

Speech leaves no fossils, and complex language exists only in our own species. But we've found a 15-million-year-old clue in an unexpected place: our laughter. Unlike speech, laughter is shared by all ...

A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information. These different kinds of laughter also spark ...

Though it may seem like a paradox, children do not laugh for joy. Scientific studies, including my own, show that there is something much deeper than joy or mirth in a child’s laughter. Adults’ ...

Amusement and pleasant surprises – and the laughter they can trigger – add texture to the fabric of daily life. Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. Intuitively we know that laughter is one of the best tools we have for ...