Geneticists have narrowed down the root of human language evolution after splicing our genes into mice to enhance their learning abilities. In the first study to investigate the cognitive effects of ...

The study of language and communication evolution investigates the processes by which linguistic systems emerge, stabilise and change over time. At its core lie game‐theoretic models, such as ...

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 ...

An international team from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook has identified shared statistical patterns in the vocabularies of ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers – they all provide a continuous stream of information that we need to track and make sense of. Who is dating whom?

Researchers from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook used AI and statistical methods to study the evolution of 22 languages, uncovering shared structural patterns in vocabulary change. The study found ...