- The universal gesture of pointing originates in an attempt to touch an object rather than use a finger like an arrow to draw attention to it. Experiments show that infants interpret pointing as if they were "attempts to touch things, not as arrows." https://www.inverse.com/article/57595-why-do-we-point-fingers-evolution 95 comments science
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