For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...

A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

Overt racism is easy to detect and has been brought to the surface for decades. It includes racial slurs like the “n” word, hate crimes, burning crosses, painting swastikas, violence against ...

Introduction: primatological perspectives on language / Barbara J. King -- Viewed from up close: monkeys, apes, and language-origins theories / Barbara J. King -- Primate social organization, gestural ...

Historians of rhetoric have largely neglected eighteenth-century Language Origins Theory (LOT). Yet, as a theory that interconnects language, human nature, and human difference, LOT is an important ...

Every foreign resident who lives here knows that when we call at someone’s door, we cry “¡Upe!” However, nobody seems to know why. Well, in the anthology “Costa Rica Kaleidoscope” Michael Crump ...

Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds. By JoAnna Klein Thousands of years ago, some of our ancestors left behind the hunter ...

Are language and mythology linked? Yes, according to French politician Dominique de Villepin (b. 1953): "If we speak our adversary's language, we feed their propaganda and mythology." But can we speak ...

Over the past two decades, comparative linguistic anthropological research has disclosed the significance of meta-discourse and metasignaling for the establishment, maintenance, and transformation of ...

Dolphins name one another, and they click and whistle about their lives or the dangers posed by sharks and humans. They also pass on useful bits of know-how from mother to child, such as how to catch ...