A newborn cannot speak, read, or walk. Yet moments after entering the world, the infant brain already responds to rhythm and ...

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded ...

Researchers prove humans are "musical animals" with a biological blueprint for rhythm and pitch that exists from birth.

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the ...

Scientists are reconstructing the sounds of early human communication by examining fossil anatomy, primate behavior, and ...

Example spectrograms showing the electric moped sounds and the imitations produced by Chinese Blackbirds. (A)–(B) Three examples of locking sound, unlocking sound, and alarms from three brands of ...