People regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. A new study suggests humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning they may retain an understanding of ape ...

Humans can understand gestures made by other great apes despite not using them ourselves—a comprehension that researchers say is either directly inherited or part of a more general cognition—a ...

Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why. By Carl Zimmer In the 1960s, Jane Goodall started spending weeks at a ...

Humans can recognize several gestures made by apes, ... The only gesture participants largely interpreted incorrectly was the object shake, at a failure rate of over 50%.

Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures. PLOS Biology , 2023; 21 (1): e3001939 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001939 Cite This Page : ...

The study participants even understood ambiguous ape gestures, those with more than one possible meaning in ape society, with one exception: When a chimp shakes an object such as a branch, it ...

It turns out you don’t have to be Jane Goodall to understand apes. Even untrained humans can decipher ape communication, including gestures related to grooming and sex, according to a new study ...

Even untrained humans can decipher ape communication, including gestures related to grooming and sex, according to a new study published on Jan. 24 in the journal PLOS Biology.

A new study suggests humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning they may retain an understanding of ape communication from their ancestors. CNN values your feedback 1.

A new study suggests humans can also understand sign language used by apes, meaning they may retain an understanding of ape communication from their ancestors. CNN values your feedback 1.

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it’s been suggested that humans can also understand sign language ...

Humans can understand apes' sign language, new study finds. From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language.