{"id":73,"date":"2008-02-19T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-02-19T20:42:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T01:42:40","slug":"pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Pointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans point.  Pointing is instinctive in humans.  Babies instinctively point to things and pay attention to pointing.  They know it is communication.  I saw this neat stuff on a Nova episode on ape learning.  It mentioned that chimps don&#8217;t understand pointing.  It&#8217;s strange to watch.  They don&#8217;t do it instinctively and don&#8217;t understand it.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, apparently we have selected dogs  to understand pointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans point. Pointing is instinctive in humans. Babies instinctively point to things and pay attention to pointing. They know it is communication. I saw this neat stuff on a Nova episode on ape learning. It mentioned that chimps don&#8217;t understand pointing. It&#8217;s strange to watch. They don&#8217;t do it instinctively and don&#8217;t understand it. Also, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}