Bodies at play: the role of intercorporeality and bodily affordances in coordinating social play in chimpanzees in the wild.

ABSTRACT: The comparative approach is a crucial method to gain a better understanding of the behavior of living human and nonhuman animals to then draw informed inferences about the behavior of extinct ancestors. One focus has been on disentangling the puzzle of language evolution. Traditionally, studies have predominantly focused on intentionally produced signals in communicative interactions. However, in collaborative and highly dynamic interactions such as play, underlying intentionality is difficult to assess and often interactions are negotiated via body movements rather than signals. This "lack" of signals has led to this dynamic context being widely ignored in comparative studies. The aim of this paper is threefold: First, we will show how comparative research into communication can benefit f

SUBMITTER: van Boekholt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826840 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature