Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

A new study suggests culture is reshaping human evolution faster than DNA, redefining how our species adapts, survives, and ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

All human languages follow the same pattern: The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, four times as often as the ...

Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species' ...

For decades, the dominant theory in human evolution suggested that modern humans descended from a single ancestral lineage in Africa. However, groundbreaking new research from the University of ...