Did language originate with the Homo Sapiens or did the Neanderthal have a language of his own? This article from current biology claims that Neanderthal man shared a gene that also appears in sub species of the homo sapien right down to modern man. FOXP2.

Hearing impaired Children in Nicaragua are building complex variations of originally learned gestures to create seemingly new language. This is important because these systems have evolved not pre-set. Read about it here.

We do know that we can break up languages into Tonal (pitch affects language) and Non Tonal types. Now scientists are begining to ask if languages and the learning of them have a genetic basis. Read about it here.

It has been consistently observed that 60% of a young talker’s language comprises of Nouns. This seems logical because first the child would develop a framework about it’s world before defining the complex tag of action to it’s components. Read more about it here.

Why is it that humans are the only ones that speak language or at least seem to have a structured communication methodology? Then again, what have we not noticed? Scientists now use advances in molecular biology, evolutionary development biology and linguistics to decode language in nature. Read more about it here.