It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Did early humans have rules for how words could be strung together? What impact did this have on their brains and behaviour?

Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

A reflection on Donald Murray’s timeless lessons — on the writing process and problems all writers must solve — as Poynter turns 50 ...

While AI tools like Microsoft’s Copilot offer promising efficiencies, they cannot replace the deeply human process of ...