Category: Human Origins
Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language
What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them
More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence
This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for.
Do We Need Language to Think?
For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself.
Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans
Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim.
A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist
Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do.