Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

Researchers prove humans are "musical animals" with a biological blueprint for rhythm and pitch that exists from birth.

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 ...

The evolution of music is an elusive yet tantalising subject as, unlike skeletons, sounds don’t leave fossilised remains. The oldest known musical instrument is a 40,000-year-old flute made from bird ...

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of ...