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Modern Chimpanzees And Ancient Humans Share Similar Patterns When Selecting Stone Tools
The stone selection process is a valuable way to differentiate between primate and hominin stone tools in the archaeological ...
Chimpanzees' stone tool choices may mirror ancient human ancestors' techniques
An international team of paleobiologists, anthropologists and behavioral scientists has found that the process used by modern ...
PBS6 年
Dexterity and Early Tools
The Oldowan stone tools from Hadar, Ethiopia ... that are beyond the abilities of even the smartest chimps. For example, only human ancestors, not chimps, showed the ability to choose the best ...
Courthouse News Service1 年
Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools
This photo shows a fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts at the Nyayanga site in southwestern Kenya in July 2016. (T.W. Plummer/Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project via AP) NEW ...