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Where have all the (ape) gestures gone?

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Date
02/2017
Author
Byrne, Richard W.
Cochet, Hélène
Keywords
Communication
Gesture
Great ape
Language origin
BF Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Abstract
Comparative analysis of the gestural communication of our nearest animal relatives, the great apes, implies that humans should have the biological potential to produce and understand 60–70 gestures, by virtue of shared common descent. These gestures are used intentionally in apes to convey separate requests, rather than as referential items in syntactically structured signals. At present, no such legacy of shared gesture has been described in humans. We suggest that the fate of “ape gestures” in modern human communication is relevant to the debate regarding the evolution of language through a possible intermediate stage of gestural protolanguage.
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Byrne , R W & Cochet , H 2017 , ' Where have all the (ape) gestures gone? ' , Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , vol. 24 , no. 1 , pp. 68-71 . https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1071-0
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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1071-0
ISSN
1069-9384
Type
Journal article
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© Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1071-0
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11132

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