HUMANS understand chimps’ sign language, scientists say. We still have ancient instincts that help us read hand gestures used by our ancestors before we evolved to ...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary ...

Man's closest animal relative, chimps, communicate in a distinctly 'human-like' way, scientists have found. The primates use gestures that follow some of the same rules as basic human language. One ...

Chimpanzee sign language apes the way humans communicate, research has shown. The primates employ gestures that follow some of the same rules intrinsic to human language, scientists have learned.

RESEARCHERS have compiled the world's first "chimpanzee dictionary". A team from St Andrews University translated the meaning of gestures that wild chimpanzees use to communicate, revealing that man's ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite meanings. This process is based on linguistic rules ...

Dr Catherine Hobaiter from the University of St Andrews explains her findings and translates one of the chimps' gestures Researchers say they have translated the meaning of gestures that wild ...

Scientists have learned that chimpanzees will ‘talk’ to each other using hand gestures with similar language rules to humans. The primates will use language that, ahem, apes the way humans communicate ...

Dr. R. Allen Gardner, the American ethologist who trained a chimpanzee to use sign languageDr. R. Allen Gardner, the American ethologist who trained a chimpanzee to use sign language ...