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Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul

Inquiring Minds

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Gestures Are a Language of Communication and of Thinking

Gesture was, in all hood, humanity's first language. No linguists think that we started gesturing to communicate with each other before we were ever able to form words. People pay more attention and remember what we say better when our points are accompanied by a gesture than when they 're not.

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