Saturday, March 31, 2007

What’s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing

He and Professor Provine figure that the first primate joke — that is, the first action to produce a laugh without physical contact — was the feigned tickle, the same kind of coo-chi-coo move parents make when they thrust their wiggling fingers at a baby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13tier.html?ex=1332302400&en=00bb8da86f124fd9&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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