Award for "lost" language
University of St Andrews anthropologist receives accolade.
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Lost writing of the Incas discovered
St Andrews anthropologist finds first phonetic Inka writing
Twitter: it’s good to talk
Social media websites can help people without speech communicate more naturally.
£4M Euro grant for new studies on mental evolution
How did humans evolve? Why did we evolve in the way that we did?
Forgetting facts
Researchers investigate the way in which we forget information.
Monkeys unable to master complex grammar
CAPTION: A cotton-top tamarin
‘Shakespeare the barbarian’
An academic from the University of St Andrews will explore today why the English language of the mid 16th century was considered to be inadequate and barbaric, even by the English themselves.