Every human voice is acoustically unique. The anatomy and evolutionary history behind that fact turns out to be one of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

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 ...