It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...

Researchers often use the comparative approach to trace the evolutionary origins of human language by comparing the vocal production of other animals, particularly primates, with that of humans.

Biologists at Baylor College of Medicine have published the largest functional map of a brain ever made ... theorizes that human musicality and language may have arisen with bipedal movement.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise ... about science for The Times and writes the Origins column. Gladiator Combat: A discovery ...

By Carl Zimmer After listening to hundreds of hours of ape calls, a team of scientists say they have detected a hallmark of human language ... the scientists to map the bonobo calls visually ...

One fundamental question in science is to understand where this extraordinary capacity for language originates from. Researchers often use the comparative approach to trace the evolutionary origins of ...