New research on primate social structures and brain anatomy is offering deeper insights into the evolutionary pathways of humans. Studies on baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees reveal complex social ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language evolution.

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

Brain size can matter across the broad sweep of primate evolution but among humans isn't the best way to estimate ...

A University of Iowa study has identified tiny genomic regions, called HAQERs, that strongly influence human language ability ...

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

Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way ...

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...