Interspecies Learning and Technical Invention in Early Human Evolution

Led by three PIs : Shumon Hussain (multispecies archaeology, University of Koln), Johannes Schick (anthropology of technology, University of Siegen), and Cat Hobaiter (comparative and evolutionary cognition, University of St Andrews), ZooGesture challenges the “species island” model of gesture-oriented research and investigates whether the observation and learning of gestures from nonhuman species, as well as their incorporation into human behavioural and cultural domains is an overlooked dynamic in the early evolution of humans as technological beings.