In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

Specific genomic regions that seem to play a role in human language development evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago, ...