| Title |
Explaining Dog Wolf Differences in Utilizing Human Pointing Gestures: Selection for Synergistic Shifts in the Development of Some Social Skills
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0006584 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Márta Gácsi, Borbála Gyoöri, Zsófia Virányi, Enikö Kubinyi, Friederike Range, Beatrix Belényi, Ádám Miklósi |
| Abstract |
The comparison of human related communication skills of socialized canids may help to understand the evolution and the epigenesis of gesture comprehension in humans. To reconcile previously contradicting views on the origin of dogs' outstanding performance in utilizing human gestures, we suggest that dog-wolf differences should be studied in a more complex way. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 2% |
| Hungary | 4 | 1% |
| Italy | 4 | 1% |
| Austria | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 1% |
| Unknown | 308 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 69 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 51 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 49 | 14% |
| Researcher | 43 | 13% |
| Other | 25 | 7% |
| Other | 54 | 16% |
| Unknown | 51 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 150 | 44% |
| Psychology | 53 | 15% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 19 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 2% |
| Other | 35 | 10% |
| Unknown | 71 | 21% |