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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

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

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