There are many famous examples of animals who seem to understand human language. But is there any real science behind them?

New genetic research suggests that humans first developed language around 135,000 years ago when populations began ...

All languages likely come from a single original one, and early people began spreading around the world 135,000 years ago.

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that ...

One of the most profound questions about human history is when language, as we know it, first emerged. A new analysis of ...

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently confirmed that the company is working on its first open language model since GPT 2. The ...

Scientists have long debated the origins of human language, a defining trait that separates people from other animals. A new genetic study suggests that early humans may have had the ability to use ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Genomic evidence suggests that the capacity for human language emerged at least 135,000 years ago, coinciding with the initial geographic divergence of Homo ...