Is this ancestral memory, or are we just too intelligent?
recorded outside of human language. Over the years, researchers have identified more than 80 such gestures, and they have been found to exist even in distantly related apes such as chimpanzees and orangutans.
Although humans are more closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, these gestures are no longer thought to be part of human communication. So, the finding that a sizeable number of people can correctly identify the gesture after so many years of evolutionary divergence can mean one of two things, researchers said in a press release.
Either human beings have retained an understanding of this ancestral communication system, or we, along with other great apes, share an ability to interpret meaningful signals by virtue of our general intelligence, physical resemblance, and similar social goals.In the comparative study of human and nonhuman communication, ape gesturing provided the first demonstration of flexible, intentional communication outside human language.
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