Heitmann, 35, has been collecting examples of these movements for the past three years. In 2019, she put out an open call for “donations,” inviting people to contribute their own habits and ...

For the most part, our gestures—hand movements and facial expressions—are connected to what we say. They interact with language when we speak, but gestures are not language." ...

Kicking things off, Snap-On is a consummate contender in conversations surrounding the pinnacle of hand tools. Snap-On has been around since 1920 and is legendary in the world of professional ...

Many hand gesture meanings go back millennia, but if you’ve spent any time online lately, you know that hand gestures are having a moment right now—and not always a graceful one.

“We do see pretty complex communication by hand gestures among the great apes, which is our closest evolutionary ancestor,” says Futrell. A study published in the March 2022 edition of the journal ...

If you’re traveling or doing business outside the U.S., beware! These seemingly innocuous hand gestures are considered rude in many parts of the world. “Hand gestures can vary significantly in ...

They show that our species can make a pretty good guess of the meanings of chimp and bonobo gestures, another hint that language may have evolved from an elaborate system of hand and body signals.

A reader who participated in the 119th annual Huntington Beach Fourth of July Parade writes to express his disappointment in partisan gestures he says he saw from a few people in the crowd.