Elbein: “The monkeys — long-tailed macaques — seem to have made their artifacts by accident, not by design. But in many ways, that only makes the finding more disruptive.”
Tag: Paranthropus
At VICE: Our view of intelligent [human] life upended by tools find?
So it’s sort of like your great-uncle and aunt made the tools, not your great-grandparents. And that’s supposed to make all the difference? Meanwhile, another “subhuman” candidate to scratch off the list.
What science media make of the 3 million year old tool assembly, recently found
Some of us suspect that it is long past time someone shone a light on how these classifications of early humans are really created. How much is evidence and how much is underlying assumption?
At Smithsonian Magazine: Stone tool kits from 3 million years ago?
The basic difference between any type of human and other animal life forms seems to have been evident three million years ago.