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Complex birdsongs help biologists piece together the evolution of lifelong learning

  • Written by Cristina Robinson, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Vocal learning in birds is a lot like how people learn language.Alexandra Giese/Shutterstock.com

Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it take so much effort to learn a new...

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