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from the gooood-boooy dept. Man's best friend may also be his smartest friend, says this article. Harvard anthropologist Brian Hare proposes that dogs have undergone evolutionary pressures after living with man for hundreds of generations. As a result, they are much better at understanding human communicative signals -- especially when compared to chimps.
"Domesticated dogs are strikingly similar to young children in their ability to perceive and interpret human gestures, and they show this propensity from a few weeks of age," Hare says. "Given our results with the New Guinea singing dogs, it now appears that ongoing human contact during dog domestication caused the unusual ability for reading human communicative signals to evolve in modern dog breeds." < | >
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Man's Smartest Friend
