“It's apes that haven't been around humans in the same way that can't follow pointing,” she explains.
The difference between the pointing apes and the nonpointing apes had nothing to do with biology, Lyn concluded. The bonobos had been taught to communicate with humans using simple visual symbols; the chimpanzees had not. “It's apes that haven't been around humans in the same way that can't follow pointing,” she explains.