How Advanced Understanding of Gestures in Apes Shapes Early Human Developments in Language

By developing complex languages, homininans have been able to achieve a better understanding of their surroundings, develop more complex group behaviours and share information helping expand upon adapting to new environments using new necessary skills.

A bigger brain and its many connections are what helped the hominina branch gain distance on its ape counterparts. It did also create a chasm when it comes to language.

Three theories to explain gesture languages in great apes

Indeed, recent developments in research on language in apes have exploited different theories to explain how apes possess the ability to use gestures in order to communicate.