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Study suggests that Neandertals shared speech and language with modern humans

Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neandertals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if [...]

Neanderthals Talked -- Like Us

Language and modern speech are not unique to our species -- Neanderthals could talk to each other too.

Welcome to the pleasuredome: How we evolved to love music

In 2008 at Hohle Fels, a Stone Age cave in Southern Germany, archaeologists discovered what is thought to be the oldest example of a man-made musical instrument: a vulture bone flute dating back to the [...]