South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that gorillas primarily live on the ground. Researchers discovered that ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...

Talking to babies in a high-pitched voice and using exaggerated pronunciation seems natural to most parents. This way of ...

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

A new study looked at baby babble and the vocalizations of apes in an attempt to arrive at a discovery on the evolution of ...

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.