Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the moon and ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems from our ability ...