22.07.2024Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human language

(The photo shows two young chimpanzees gesturing during play at the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Uganda. ©Adrian Soldati)

New Current Biology paper involving researchers from the Department's Comparative Communication and Cognition Group shows chimpanzee gestures share similarities with human conversational exchanges!

Article at BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c25lw18zrjyo

Original Paper at Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00761-9