In caves and rock shelters across Africa, archaeologists have uncovered pierced shells, etched ochre, and carefully shaped stone tools. These objects suggest planning, shared meaning, and social rules ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...