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

The resource is already lending itself to comparative studies that offer new insights into human and ape evolution, and into what underlies the functional differences among these species. A report on ...

Shortly after the first human genome sequence was finalized in 2003, a chimpanzee assembly was released 2. This was followed by assemblies for other great apes, such as the gorilla 3, Sumatran ...

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

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

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

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

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 ...