Ardi and I wish you happy holidays. Download PDF of this post This is my last post of the year. I’m taking Christmas and New Year’s weekends off, so barring some unexpected heaven knows what, I’ll be silent. I thought I go out with a list of...

I have signed a contract with Counterpoint to write a book with the tentative title of Babel's Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech. Counterpoint also published my book on the discovery of the Ice Age, The Ice Finders, and had a great...

Science magazine has declared the work on "Ardi"  "the scientific breakthrough of 2009" (see: New Details on 4.4 Million Year Old Hominid). In an editorial, the editor in chief at Science writes, " This breakthrough “changes the way we think...

Nicaraguan sign-language users enjoy a chat. Is their tone of voice in their smiling faces?  Instead of reporting some news, I want to ask a question and I urge all readers with knowledge of signing to contribute. One of the differences between...

The New York Times is reporting (here) that a study of Campbell's Monkey cries in the Ivory Coast has found the use of suffixes to modify the meaning of a call. The monkeys have 6 basic calls which they can modify. For example, krak is the call made in...