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Say, What? Monkey Mouths And Throats Are Equipped For Speech

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Monkeys' vocal equipment can produce the sounds of human speech, research shows, but they lack the connections between the auditory and motor parts of the brain that humans rely on to imitate words. (Brian Jefferey Beggerly/Flickr)
Monkeys' vocal equipment can produce the sounds of human speech, research shows, but they lack the connections between the auditory and motor parts of the brain that humans rely on to imitate words. (Brian Jefferey Beggerly/Flickr)

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