Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of ...

A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might ...

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.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language. By Carl Zimmer If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.