Researchers have identified tiny genetic “switches” that appear to play a surprisingly large role in human language ability.

Scientists from China have identified the existence of human-like speech pathways in the brains of marmoset monkeys, ...

For most of human evolution, the story of the brain seemed to move in one direction: up. Over millions of years, our ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. It is a deep ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that ...

Researchers use molecular barcoding to discover that Alston’s singing mice evolved complex vocalizations through targeted ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.