Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

might have its roots in an era before language evolved. To test this, alongside colleagues from Switzerland, I conducted an eye-tracking study with human adults, six-month-old infants, chimpanzees, ...

Since language is not required for this behavior ... Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter in Archaeology Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists should seek answers hidden ...

This evolution didn’t happen overnight ... researchers were already exploring whether machines could understand human language. Language is messy, full of ambiguities, idioms, and shifting ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...