Did you know that Humans and our closest relatives the Chimpanzees actually share a language?
Chimpanzees use vocalization to communicate but many more gestures and get this: over 95% of the gestures they use are the same gestures used instinctively by human babies and toddlers up to age two.
In total, researchers found the human toddlers used 52 discrete gestures to communicate, including clapping, hugging, stomping, raising their arms and shaking their heads, often stringing the moves together to convey complex ideas. It turns out that the chimps also used 46 of the same gestures, meaning there’s a 90 percent overlap.
I think we share 98.8% of the same DNA with chimps and the reason they cant vocalize like we can is due to the structure of their .. ..idk what to call it. They're built slightly differently than us in the voice region. They have these vocal membranes tha make their voices hard to control ..they also lack the brain function to be able to micro manipulate their tongues and lips in a way that's required for complex speech.
There are some interesting studies out there about people with autism and their possible ability to be able to understand thoughts of others without having to be spoken. It's possible they are picking up on the slightest bits of movements that accompany certain thoughts or something like that. . ..that's just my guess.
Actually i think i'm wrong about chimps and humans being interfertile. There were some experiments done in vitro but nothing ever came of it.
the ability to pick up on such cues might be strong with people who, for some reason, lack the ability to communicate verbally.
My initial skepticism was with the characterization of people on the spectrum being able to "understand thoughts of others without having to be spoken". Did you mean more of picking up on the mood of a person through body language?
Side note: I am not knowledgeable about the condition of people on the spectrum but i thought one of the big issues they struggle with is not being able to pick up on social cues that most of us can.
@Pikachu i think the people that she was focused on are deep in life of being autistic, not the ones who merely identify as being autistic due to a lack of social grace, and for all the free grant money ..im joking but serious about the people that that podcast was focused on. They are the non vocal ones. She had a term to describe them. I can't recall what it was.
That's a good point you mention about their difficulty with picking up on social cues. ..that pretty much blows my theory out of the water.
Supposedly China conducted an experiment in cross breeding a human with a chimpanzee and Supposedly the embrio started growing and , one more supposedly, they aborted it.
That would have been some time before the early 1990s. That's when i got wind if it from my anthropology professor. I mean, if they can do it with a horse and a donkey to make a mule, when they only have 95% of common DNA, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a success, but they'd have to call it something other than a success.
Yeah i did a quick google and the reasons the ai overview gave for humans not being able to breed with chimps didn't seem legit. Like many animals with less genetic similarity and different numbers of chromosomes can still cross breed.
