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Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe Anatolian landscape in Turkey. lay london/Shutterstock The languages in the Indo-European family...
African elephants use names to call each other, study suggests
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal...
Celebrate Our Planet with These Earth Day Quotes
Country Living via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThere are plenty of wonderful ways to celebrate Earth Day this April 22. You can begin by joining a local Great Global Cleanup crew picking up trash in...
Do stereotypes have a place in comedy? Phoebe Robinson, more comedians talk being in on the joke
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis story is part of a USA TODAY series looking at the evolution of comedy and what the industry’s...
What a gorilla named Lia taught scientists about human facial expressions
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSilverback Gorilla Getty Images/Edwin_Butter There’s a lot we don’t know about gorillas. This is due...
Scientists decode orangutan communication using machine learning
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA juvenile male Bornean orangutan Getty Images/seng chye teo Wendy Erb has spent countless hours...
Could Neanderthals talk?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoClose-up image of a Neanderthal skull against a black background. Neanderthals were our closest human relatives, and they had many similarities with...
Consonants emerged ‘when human ancestors moved from jungle to plains as vowels don't travel well’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoConsonants emerged when human ancestors relocated from the jungle to live on open plains, where the...
These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) perching on a rock in Thailand. Non-verbal gestures are an integral part of how humans and some other...
