Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

History helps us understand our past, learn from it, and plan for the future. It shapes our identity and helps us connect ...

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.