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‘Laughter existed before humour,’ Provine told me, shortly before doing an impression of a chimpanzee laughing, the brilliance of which I sadly can’t convey in print. ‘It’s the ritualised sound of rough-and-tumble play.’ The sound primates have always made, in other words, when they’re socialising energetically. It’s not a response to something funny, but an instinctive bonding mechanism. Or as Provine puts it: ‘The key ingredient to laughter is another person, not a joke.’
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