New research shows that chimpanzees regularly communicate with each other through rapid back-and-forth gestures, similar to how humans talk.
Chimpanzees and humans are even more alike than we knew. In a new study published today, scientists provide evidence that chimpanzees regularly communicate by gesturing to others in a rapid back-and-forth manner, much like how humans converse. The findings suggest that the evolution of chimp communication and human language have a lot in common with one another, the scientists say.
All in all, the team analyzed more than 8,500 gestures from 252 chimpanzees. Two individual chimpanzees made about 14% of these gestures. And the pattern and pace of these gestures were remarkably similar to that of a typical human conversation, the researchers found. “We also found that even though all chimpanzees take fast turns, one group was a little slower than the others. This also matches slight variation between human societies with some groups being slow or fast talkers.”, suggest that some of the unspoken rules that underlie human language are rooted in a deeper ancestral past that we share with chimps and possibly other animals, the researchers say.
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