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

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...

Humans' closest relatives are other apes, such as chimpanzees and bonobos. In fact, we share nearly 99% of the same genes, or letters in our DNA, with chimpanzees.

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

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

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

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

Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.

Analysis - South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school ...