Human brains light up for chimp voices in a way no one expected

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251209043042.htm

Connectivity of Language Areas Unique in the Human Brain

https://neurosciencenews.com/language-connectivity-evolution-20959/

Tool Use and Language Skills Are Linked in the Brain: Practicing One Improves the Other

https://neurosciencenews.com/tool-language-brain-19646/

Waarom een aap geen taal kan leren

https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/waarom-een-aap-geen-taal-kan-leren/

A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/10/730611589/a-musical-brain-may-help-us-understand-language-and-appreciate-tchaikovsky?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr

Primate speech: How some species are 'wired' for talk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-45114322

An argument over the evolution of language, with high stakes

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21729981-daniel-everett-believes-language-began-19m-years-ago-homo-erectus-ancestor

Monkey Say: Marmosets Learn to Call the Same Way Human Babies Learn to Babble

http://neurosciencenews.com/monkey-language-acquisition-6776/

Dogs Know When You're Praising Them. That Doesn't Mean They Understand Human Speech

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-dogs-understand-human-speech-how-can-we-be-sure-180960336/

World’s Oldest Butchery Tools Gave Evolutionary Edge to Human Communication

http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-evolution-communication-tools-1697/

Birdsong and human speech turn out to be controlled by the same genes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/12/11/birdsong-and-human-speech-turn-out-to-be-controlled-by-the-same-genes/

Dogs’ brains may process speech similar to humans’

www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/dogs-brains-may-process-speech-similar-humans

Did Stone Age tools forge the beginnings of language?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2791039/did-stone-age-tools-forge-beginnings-language-making-hand-axes-helped-region-brain-associated-speech-evolve.html

Killer whales learn to communicate like dolphins

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141007111055.htm

Neanderthals could speak, archaeologists say

http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.580384

Talk is cheep: Do caged birds sing a key to language?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129550.500-talk-is-cheep-do-caged-birds-sing-a-key-to-language.html

Language and tool-making skills evolved at same time, study says

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-language-tool-making-skills-evolved.html

Neandertals Shared Speech and Language With Modern Humans, StudySuggests.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709115252.htm

In Fish Brains, A Clue To Why We Talk With Our Hands

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/fish-brains-clue-why-we-gesticulate-when-we-talk

Study: Music, language's common evolutionary roots lie in emotion

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-amusia-music-language-emotion-darwin-evolution-20121030,0,5025585.story