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ANT 103 1st Edition Lecture 2Outline of Last Lecture I. In class video about gesturesII. ConventionalIII. Communicative vs usefulA. How we distinguish if someone is trying to say something or just doing something for themselvesII.Intentional vs unintentionalB.Some gestures we do out of habitC.We are wired for language, but there are some things we do not have the capacity to understand.III.Gestures are universalA.Every population has some universal gesturesB.Facial expressions could eventually change from what they are todayC.Laughter can be the result of more than humorOutline of Current LectureI. Human vs. Animal CommunicationA. Driven by a desire to communicate (animals)B. Humans think they are better than animals mostly because they think they can communicate betterII. Animal communicationA. ExamplesB. There is little proof that animals can communicate about the past or futureC. They cannot change their communication as easily as humans canD. Can animals teach their communication like humans can?Current LectureAre humans really better than animals because they can use words to “talk”? I do not think so. Humans tend to push aside things they do not understand as trivial and inferior. These are the kind of questions linguistic anthropologists like to ask. Animal communication may be just as complex as human, but we would never know if we did not ask these questions. Here are a few examples that show how complex animal communication is. First, dogs smelling each other and dogs barking are forms of communication that humans do not understand. Second, birds chirping is a loud form of animal communication most humans find annoying in These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.the mornings. Finally, bee communication is one of the more complex animal languages out there. They use figure eight dances to tell the others where, what kind, and how much food there is in an area. This is part of their


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