An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Ancient carvings once thought decorative may actually be early attempts to record information. Their statistical complexity matches that of proto-cuneiform, pushing the origins of writing-like systems ...

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.

A growing body of genetic evidence suggests that Neanderthals and Denisovans carried many of the same regulatory gene networks linked to language and vocal anatomy in modern humans, challenging the ...

Music exists in every culture, but its purpose goes far beyond enjoyment. From an evolutionary perspective, music helped humans bond quickly and powerfully in large groups. Rhythm allowed people to ...

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In some situations, it’s necessary to change the keyboard, for example, if you want to write in a foreign language such as Spanish and need special characters, such as the tilde above a capital letter ...

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The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...

"It feels like the system is coding with me." This was the comment one of my senior engineers made while we were shipping a critical module for one of our Fortune 500 clients. This comment, although ...