Scientists from China have identified the existence of human-like speech pathways in the brains of marmoset monkeys, ...

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.

A new study uses deep linear networks to prove that language undergoes iterated learning to become structured and learnable.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

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

Language evolution encompasses the origin, diversification and change of human languages over time. It integrates comparative and computational methods—such as phylogenetic modelling, phylogeography ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great apes, and even ...