In work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity ...

John Bennett, Hall’s doctoral adviser and the former president of Union Theological Seminary, considered Hall the heir ...

Researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin. In ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Depleting our creative diversity may become one of the hidden costs of AI, but that diversity is worth preserving. If we let ...

This evolutionary path could explain why modern human thought resembles a form of navigation—moving through a conceptual space one idea at a time. In their paper00808-0), Zheng and Meister ...

The Architecture of Human Thought Human thinking is grounded in experience. It's shaped by memory, fueled by emotion, guided by intention, and stitched together by the continuity of self.

At the heart of a future where AI serves the common good lies a commitment to lifelong learning. As technological landscapes ...

The work suggests that cortical layers and regions start to form earlier than previously thought. Spatial transcriptomics charts development of the human brain. Cortical layers shape up three months ...