Terms: bonobos
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• Social Studies > Current Events Archives > Science > 2007
• Science > Animals > A B C > Chimpanzees
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1. -04-30-07 Apes Point to Origins of Human Language (MSNBC News)
   "Our closest primate relatives, the bonobos and chimps, are more versatile when communicating with their hands, feet and limbs than with their facial expressions and voices."
   
   "The finding, detailed online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports the notion that humans were communicating with sign language long before they were speaking, an idea known as the 'gestural hypothesis.' " 04-07