Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...

Current research on the evolution of language shows that we need to move beyond classifying people as “visual” or “verbal.” Using language well involves a vast range of skills, from finely controlling ...

In most discussions about generative AI, people tend to focus on the things that tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Google Bard and Bing Chat can do. And it's easy to understand why – these impressive ...

Evolution tends to build on existing structures, and probably, language evolved from capacities adapted for other purposes, such as planning and imitating action sequences and processing visual ...