All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

Zebra finches’ songs share a lot of patterns with human speech. Do they have a common biological ancestry? Raina Fan/McGill University Human languages might be a distant cousin of bird songs, with the ...

All over the world, parents sing songs and recite rhymes to their young children. Researchers have known for some time that this has a stimulating or calming effect on babies, but it turns out that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humpback whale mother and calf on the New Caledonian breeding grounds. Mark Quintin All known human languages display a ...