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Fun article, but it's a pity they don't specify exactly what "lots of training" means: "Tomasello and his team wondered if such a rare ability extended to hand gestures and tested chimps to see if they could understand pointing. To their surprise, the chimps did badly, able to learn the meaning of a pointed finger only after lots of training."

Because my own child also understood what a pointing finger meant only after what I feel was "lots of training".




Was it training, or did you just have to wait till your child got older?




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