A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — A new study suggests that the fundamental abilities underlying human language and technological culture may have evolved before humans and apes ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find ...

A new study has identified 15 fundamental motives that drive human behavior, showing how these forces intertwine and relate ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

New research suggests a genetic variant in the NOVA1 protein may have played a key role in the emergence of human speech.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.