People have a unique anatomy that supports our ability to produce complex language.

Evolutionary changes in both the vocal tract and the brain were necessary for humans’ remarkable gift of gab.

The cells are crucial to detecting emphasis, sarcasm, and uptalk in human conversation.

Anatomical analysis suggests monkeys possess all the hardware for human-like speech, they just lack the neurological capacity to use it.

Captive ape produces more than 500 vowel-like sounds, offering clues to how speech evolved in humans.

Dogs tend to turn to the left when they hear emotional speech-like sounds, and right when they hear verbal commands from a robot.

Recent results are as puzzling as they are beguiling, dredging up debates about the nature of language and the ability of a single gene to affect it so greatly.