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Learn how new discoveries about whale language also raise ethical and legal questions.

Two new studies published in the journals Neuron00792-5) and Naturereveal how the human brain transforms a continuous stream of sound into distinct words. The findings identify a specific neural ...

Researchers believe that the first proper words most likely originated from imitation. “People would try to imitate the sound that some animal or thing made,” says Faarlund. An example is the ancient ...

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