The peak of language diversity may have been ... known as phylogenies, which chart the history of their evolution in a manner analogous to that for biological species. It also means that the ...

the demands of language would have had time to affect brain evolution more broadly. A large network of subtle gene changes and neurological adjustments would be involved, resulting in a well ...

Could chimpanzees hold a key to the evolution of human language? A recent study reveals complex vocal combinations in our ...

However, these birds do not acquire combinatorial language. So, evolution of sound articulation is independent from and also a simpler process than improving voluntary imagination. In conclusion ...

However, if changes in connectivity along this pathway are a major contributor to the evolution of language, then what are the functions of those pre-existing cortical areas in macaques and ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity.

The model employed makes it possible to observe evolutionary trends in language over the millennia. The article, "Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar," authored by Gerd Carling ...

When combined, all the evidence suggests that the birth of language occurred as part of a suite of human evolution and other developments between two and 1.5 million years ago. Significantly ...

Part of the reason LDT caught on to begin with is that language evolution, as a field, lacks concrete data. As John Locke, a linguistics professor at Lehman College, put it, “Motor control rots ...

The finding doesn’t mean that changes in FOXP2 weren’t important for language evolution, says Kirk Lohmueller, a population geneticist at UCLA. But geneticists may have to rethink some ...