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

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

Neanderthal intelligence may have been similar to modern humans, with research showing minimal cognitive differences between ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

In The Inheritors, Willliam Golding’s second novel, Neanderthals utter only a few short words and think entirely with images.

Learn more about Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERs), genetic regulatory regions that may have shaped language ...

Two new studies challenge long-held views of Neanderthal inferiority, showing their brain differences from early modern humans fall within modern human variation and that they shared genetic regions ...

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 ...