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When did human language emerge? A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that Date: March 18, 2025 ...

Describing artificial intelligence as having neural networks and understanding language has implications for how we understand both AI and the human brain.

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests.

Researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

The Language of Animals In the second half of the 18th century, the philosophical focus shifted from the age-old argument that nonhuman animals lacked reason to a serious study of animal language.

In human language, a few words are used very frequently; most are relatively rare. A study published in Science today suggests that whale songs and human language share this pattern, which ...

Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language And some whales exhibit Menzerath’s law even more strongly than humans.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 ...