Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

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

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

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

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the landscape.

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...

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

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...