New analysis exhibits that people are naturally able to understanding most of the indicators – or gestures – that wild chimpanzees and bonobos use to speak with one another.
Scientists on the University of St Andrews, learning communication in chimpanzees and bonobos, examined folks’s capability to translate animal gestures in a video playback experiment.
They say the invention means that the final frequent ancestor shared with chimpanzees additionally used indicators and gestures. And these present a core for our personal language.
With inputs from BBC
