Great Apes Communicate to Start and End Social Interactions
Sarah Khatkhatay, SK Somaiya Vidhyadhar No normal human walks off mid-conversation without saying goodbye, or it would just be impolite. Politeness calls for efforts to reduce the threat of action to an interlocutor’s face. Signals like waving to start or end a conversation or interaction is a behavior not seen outside of the human species […]
