考研英语阅读例题：munication：Gesture politics 人类的交流：肢体语言.doc

微信扫描二维码关注启航考研( qh_kaoyan ) 考研自学平台咋学微信号: 咋学网( z axueapp ) munication : Gesture politics 人类的交流: 肢体语言[] The Economist IT IS received wisdom that humanity owes a lot of its evolutionary ess to its remarkable ability municate. So much so, in fact, that few have bothered to test this hypothesis in any systematic way. Now, a group of researchers led by Andrew King, of the Royal Veterinary College in Britain, has tried to plug this gaping hole. Their first results have just been published in Biology Letters . Hunter-gatherers ’ practice of scouring their surroundings for edible plants is responsible for half of the name anthropologists have bestowed on them. And for good reason. With hunting likely to have been an intermittent diversion, effective foraging would have been crucial to tiding early humans over to the next woolly mammoth. So Dr King and his colleagues conducted a study to see how, if at all, communication enhances foraging prowess. They recruited 121 visitors to, rather appropriately, the London Zoo, and split them into 43 groups. Each group contained between two and seven people. Some were single-sex and some mixed. Some pose d of family and friends whereas others brought plete strangers. Half the groups were allowed municate freely. The rest were told to exchange no verbal signals or gestures of any kind. Unsurprisingly, the groups that were allowed municate pr