Pointing has a particular significance to humans and dogs because it expresses:

a. joint attention, the ability to share awareness on a visual target
b. attentive order, the ability to force attention away from one's person
c. coevolution, as it is something that happens to all human pets
d. cohabitation, as both humans and dogs seek out pointing as a way of disciplining


a

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