mountain gorillas are using their gestures across diverse contexts and in all age-sex groups : so once again, as we saw in the other apes, once you move outside a captive setting you get an explosion of gesture for many communicative functions, so it's #teamGesture all the way! 4/6

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Neanderthal language revisited: not only us Here we re-evaluate our 2013 paper on the antiquity of language (Dediu and Levinson, 2013) in the light of a surge of new information on human evoluti…

And they have language www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (not that language is everything.. #teamGesture & proud) 11/13