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

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 ...

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

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

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

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.

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

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

The idea of a missing evolutionary link between humans and apes is both compelling and persistent, but the truth is more ...