
APE GESTURES POINT TO ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE: STUDY
Researchers have found apes communicate more effectively and flexibly using gestures than they do with facial expressions and sounds, findings that may shed light on how human language developed.
REf. https://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05...e-gestures.html
Apes' abilities misunderstood by decades of poor science. Hundreds of scientific studies over two decades have told us that apes are clever -- just not as clever as us. New analysis argues that what we think we know about apes' social intelligence is based on wishful thinking and flawed science. Source 2z.
How typically human. We always see ourselves as superior. My country is superior to yours. My religion is superior to yours. My ethos is superior to yours. My society is superiority to ours. This may well lead to our downfall. And if we ever meet an alien race I'm sure this superiority complex of ours will start an interstellar war.