A new study shows how man’s best friend might be even more human-like than we thought. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, suggests that dogs are able to read our communicative intent — that is, our intention to interact with them — via our faces, an ability that very young humans possess. Increasing evidence supports the notion that humans and dogs share some social skills, with dogs’ social-cognitive functioning resembling that of a 6-month to 2-year-old child in…
