Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)

31 points by bikenaga 6 hours ago

3 comments:

by iberator 4 minutes ago

Ha! And someone today at HN laughed at the research of monkeys playing with crystals...

Maybe one day we could communicate with monkeys with marbles and crystals and stuff as SIGN language.

Imagine monkey soldiers becoming reality in AI WARS.

by WalterBright 34 minutes ago

They could also be simply idle doodling or decorations.

by bryanlarsen 30 minutes ago

Too bad we don't have a paper that applies information theory techniques to answer that question. Oh wait...

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