When people do hand gestures, are those hand gestures thousands of years old?
New Scientist (20th Feb 2010) has an article about old cave drawings which look like hand sign language; it has me wondering about which gestures people might create spontaneously and be identical to those used all over the globe – and just how spontaneous gestures are: are they all learned without us noticing? eg. to describe a booming explosion by launching one’s hands outwards.
Pay no attention to the fella behind the “Dude!” This is NOT a simple common sense question. That this situation exists is common sense, but that’s not the question! His question is relative to the overall correlation between spontaneous hand gestures without significant social precedent…like the upraised finger responses the last answer might elicit!
This isn’t much different than the 100 monkeys bangin’ on a typewriter indefinitely would probably come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. It’s certainly not a deeply metaphysical question, but neither is it deserving of scorn out of hand!
However, it doesn’t lend itself to easy answer either; perhaps it’s that frustration that’s showin’ in that last reply! LOL
(Sorry…just pickin’!) heh heh
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