New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

A University of Iowa study has identified a tiny portion of the genome, present in both humans and Neanderthals, that strongly influences language ability. These Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions ...

Two groundbreaking studies reveal that despite the vast diversity of human languages, there are deep, recurring patterns in ...

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

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 ...

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.