Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

This study reveals that "baby talk” has developed particularly in humans, even though other species – monkeys, bats, cats and ...

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...

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.

A new study looked at baby babble and the vocalizations of apes in an attempt to arrive at a discovery on the evolution of human language.

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

Researchers show that even large silverback gorillas spend a substantial amount of time in trees Bwindi mountain gorillas in Uganda and western lowland gorillas in Gabon spend significantly more time ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...