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 used by ...

It's well understood that chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and the other apes use gestures to communicate non-verbally among one another. To date, more than 80 distinct gestures have been identified ...

Spoken language was thought of as a hallmarking characteristic of being human. There is a difference here between language and communication—we know that many other species communicate but we also ...

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 ...

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 used by ...