Coolkidbozzy [he/him] to

Earth • 2 years ago

Humans and wild apes share common language

20

Humans and wild apes share common language

Coolkidbozzy [he/him] to

Earth • 2 years ago

Researchers believe that gestures used by great apes were an evolutionary "starting point" for our language.

brb gotta find a literal baby to help me build a rosetta stone for humans and monkeys

Chat

TillieNeuen [she/her]
·
2 years ago
Eh, the article says the people in the study chose from a multiple choice list when identifying the gestures. I'd like to know just how similar those choices were.

link

Earth

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !earth@hexbear.net

The world’s #1 planet!

A community for the discussion of the environment, climate change, ecology, sustainability, nature, and pictures of cute wild animals.

Socialism is the only path out of the global ecological crisis.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

36 users / day
302 users / week
515 users / month
1.47K users / 6 months
12.5K local subscribers
12.9K subscribers
2.16K Posts
33.1K Comments
Modlog