A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

Scientists have identified NOVA1, a unique human language gene that may have played a key role in the evolution of spoken ...

A specific gene variant seen in people is likely one of many that contributed to the development of language in modern humans ...

A gene variant present in most people might have contributed to cognitive differences between humans and their closest ...

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

In a new study, published Tuesday (Feb. 18) in the journal Nature Communications, researchers used CRISPR gene editing to tweak the genomes of mice so they possessed the human version of NOVA1.

Researchers used CRISPR gene editing to replace the NOVA1 protein found in mice with the type exclusively found in humans, and it changed the way the animals vocalized when they called out to each ...