Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills.

Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills.

The comparison of human related communication skills of socialized canids may help to understand the evolution and the epigenesis of gesture comprehension in humans. To reconcile previously contradicting views on the origin of dogs' outstanding performance in utilizing human gestures, we sugges...

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Main Authors: Márta Gácsi, Borbála Györi, Zsófia Virányi, Enikö Kubinyi, Friederike Range, Beatrix Belényi, Adám Miklósi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2719091?pdf=render

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