Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

In a quest to understand complex speech, scientists inserted what's been dubbed a human “language gene” into mice. Remarkably ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.