Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

Talking to babies in a high-pitched voice and using exaggerated pronunciation seems natural to most parents. This way of ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

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

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 baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

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