Interesting, never thought about that. Now I’m curious how far back we’d need to go in different cultures until we don’t see anyone doing this kind of thing - nowadays I think it’s pretty common around the globe.
As a counterpoint to the above comment, there are also instinctual behaviours that we don’t even know we’re doing. The proof is in that blind-from-birth people have been seen performing the same sorts of behaviours as sighted people, but they can’t possibly have learned by watching.
Smiling is one such proven example, as are hand movements when talking.
I’m not sure where the head-in-hands of despair falls with regard to this, but given that we see other great apes and monkeys do similar things in similar situations, there might well be an element of instinct to it.
Watch it have been some ancient Navy SEALS hand signal meaning FUBAR and it caught on when the ancient warrior automatically used it as he saw his hut burning down from an accidental fire. Now, all of humanity uses it.
Interesting, never thought about that. Now I’m curious how far back we’d need to go in different cultures until we don’t see anyone doing this kind of thing - nowadays I think it’s pretty common around the globe.
As a counterpoint to the above comment, there are also instinctual behaviours that we don’t even know we’re doing. The proof is in that blind-from-birth people have been seen performing the same sorts of behaviours as sighted people, but they can’t possibly have learned by watching.
Smiling is one such proven example, as are hand movements when talking.
I’m not sure where the head-in-hands of despair falls with regard to this, but given that we see other great apes and monkeys do similar things in similar situations, there might well be an element of instinct to it.
Watch it have been some ancient Navy SEALS hand signal meaning FUBAR and it caught on when the ancient warrior automatically used it as he saw his hut burning down from an accidental fire. Now, all of humanity uses it.