The mechanisms behind the development of human language are one of the great mysteries of primate evolution. Biologists have ...

UC San Diego and Stanford University researchers have created a comprehensive map of the human U2OS cell. The map revealed ...

Bonobos, our closest relatives, may not speak, but they use something strikingly similar to human language. A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that ... influences more than 90 percent of other human genes ...

From a starting point that recognizes this current situation, this field of research explains the development mechanisms of high-level brain function (such as characteristic human language development ...