Chimp communication gestures found to follow human linguistics rules

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 09:52 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers with members from the U.K., Switzerland and Spain has found that chimpanzees use communication gestures in ways that follow human linguistic rules. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study of chimps communicating with one another in the wild, and compares their observations against human communication rules.

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