The third wave of AI will bring us to a pivotal moment in the evolution of work, where the emergence of autonomous agents promises to transform how humans and machines collaborate. For us, agentic ...

This gene is part of a sweeping evolutionary change in early modern humans and hints at potential ancient origins of spoken language.

FOXP2, a gene implicated in affecting speech and language, is held up as a textbook example of positive selection on a human-specific trait. But in a new paper, researchers challenge this finding ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 96, No. 14 (Jul. 16, 1999), pp. 8028-8033 (6 pages) The emergence of language was a defining moment in the ...

Pre-modern humans would also not have been able to learn recursive language, meaning adults could not teach it to their children, who, in turn, would never acquire PFS.

According to one group of researchers, it was the modern human's need to socialize that shaped the facial proportions and contours of Homo sapiens.

Human language may have developed as a way to share and pass along tool-making skills, study suggests. Participants in tool-making experiments showed the importance of language in teaching the ...

Human language research has come a long way since philosophers of the 1700s started thinking about communication. But scientists and scholars still pose many questions about the origins of ...