It takes a village to raise a child – and that’s why we started talking to each other, argues an evolutionary biologist The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminisation in recent ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

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Human language capacities developed primarily to aid in rearing children, according to this lucid debut from biologist Beekman. Babies are born “underbaked,” Beekman writes, explaining that because ...

The story of human evolution has undergone a distinct feminization in recent decades. Or, rather, an equalization: a much-needed rebalancing after 150 years during which, we were told, everything was ...