A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words— mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Dr. Evangelia Papanikolaou, an expert in music therapy, discusses the benefits of this alternative treatment for physical and ...