Tag: tools

Any engineer today would be proud of them.

These ancient hominids had a complex and complicated pattern of extinction.

This simple advancement still echoes through the ages.

Give an orangutan a banana and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a stick and he'll poke bananas ...

They may have received some genetic assistance from an early race of humans.

Maybe change their name to cockatools now?

The monkeys cut the stones for a whole different reason, though. Ok, maybe they're not that smart.

Is there anything you can't buy in today's shopping malls? The list must be pretty short already, but now we ...

A far from definite, yet highly interesting explanation for the origin of language was recently proposed - not by linguists or ...

Chimps, our closest relatives, can pass down knowledge and skills, like using a new tool for instance, and establish cultural ...

Early modern human populations were culturally diverse and sometimes exchanged tools helped by river networks in a then savanna rich ...

Modern humans started 'replacing' Neanderthals some 40.000 years ago, and for a long time, it was thought this came as ...

People used to think Chimpanzee tool-use was impressive, but it in the past decades it has  been documented that dolphins, ...

We now know that pre-modern human tool use dates back far beyond we previously might have thought, each discovery proving ...