Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

Many people know that the domestication of the wolf took place in the Neolithic period. The common assumption is that humans chose the friendliest wolves and began to breed them. But what if it was ...

Whether humans are singular among animals in their use of complex language remains a hot topic among scientists in many fields. Rockefeller University researchers Robert B. Darnell and Erich D. Jarvis ...

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Humans have caused the loss of the only male chimpanzee in one social group — and as a result at least one traditional ...

Congratulations are in order for Lainey Wilson as she revealed she is engaged to Devlin “Duck” Hodges! The country music ...

A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and ...

What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...

They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...