The epiphany for me was that I knew chimp mommies don’t make these noises, so I knew something happened during evolution,

The behavior of chimp mommies and babies and human mothers and infants are delightfully identical in many ways — the gestures and the facial expressions — but we are dramatically different in other ways,

We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this...

Total budget that includes programming, staff and facilities is something over half a million dollars a year. And, that doesn’t include a budget for large infrastructure investment.

Operating costs will go into humanities in variety of ways, [They will go to] replacing the program in Italy, raising graduate student stipends in the humanities in particular and also the social studies.