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juanbsuAug 12, 2010
This submitter has submitted over 1200 articles and this is the first one to make it to the FP. I f**king hate power diggers. Congrats, quantum!
xsubmergedAug 12, 2010
I saw a crow on youtube using tools, is it that surprising that a human ancestor would have done the same?
volume909Aug 12, 2010
you can't assume in science because sometimes obvious things are not obvious
captininsanityAug 12, 2010
What's striking about this is that the tools are simply not environmental object that are used to preform a task, but they are objects created with the intent of a future use.
powderedtoastyAug 12, 2010
The article I read said they didn't know if the tools were made or if they were just found. Did you see another article?
captininsanityAug 12, 2010
Yea your right. Finding the evidence is a future plan. They just look too well cut to just be by chance.
tdouglerAug 12, 2010
One wonders then, how modern day chimpanzees and other primates will look/act in 3-4 million years. This was pulled from a National Geographic article a few years ago;
"Tool use among chimpanzees is well documented. For example, chimps in the Taï rain forest, in West Africa's Côte d'Ivoire, use stone "hammers" to crack open nuts. In Tanzania's Gombe National Park, chimps use straw and blades of grass to hunt for termites, as made famous in Jane Goodall's classic documentaries."
In the end, I suppose it depends on our impact to their environment. If we were smart, we'll move on in a few million years (assuming we're still all here).
goweigusAug 12, 2010
they have some good stuff on chimps in that show Life After People
some theorize that if we disappeared chimps from zoos and everywhere would move into our buildings following pigeons, and they could learn to harvest some of the eggs but not all of them (so that they will always have a supply of eggs)
and that could be the start of the next intelligent life
protodonAug 12, 2010
That sound so unrealistic, have you ever seen pigeon eggs? Me neither and I don't see chimpanzee following Ostriches around.
protodonAug 12, 2010
They'll be extinct...unless we are. I believe it's either us or the entire animal kingdom. Fate will have to choose which.
hetmanAug 12, 2010
I thought Capuchin monkeys used tools also. I thought that defeated the idea that tool using was not a strictly (the genus) Homo.
bracomadarAug 12, 2010
About the only thing that really sets us apart from other animals is cooking food.
rudegarAug 12, 2010
and reality shows
bracomadarAug 13, 2010
You haven't seen Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet?
spinningheadAug 12, 2010
It depends what you mean by tools. I think some other primates might us a stick or something for short-term use, but I thought some Indonesian crow was the only other animal we have found that has a small repertoire of distinct tool types that they whittle down. This discovery might not be Earth-shattering, but its is the first proof of something that was previously unverified.
theodenkingAug 12, 2010
Well this article is about pushing back the date of the earliest tool users within our lineage. Capuchin tool use is probably an example of convergent evolution, because most primate taxa do not use tools, including ones much more closely related to humans than Capuchins.
protodonAug 12, 2010
Watching 'LIFE' and their tools episode really opened my eyes about how A LOT of other animals use tools. Humans ain't so special no more.
monkeysmasherAug 12, 2010
Early hominids, not early humans.....
rchrdmAug 13, 2010
Homofarnsworth?
theodenkingAug 12, 2010
Tools made of bone aren't stone tools. They're bone tools.
monkeysmasherAug 12, 2010
You're mom is a bone tool
Closed AccountAug 12, 2010
What was that ? You have bone stools ?
kageryuAug 12, 2010
Lies being spread by scientists aka the Devil's minions! The true answer is in the Bible! Zombie Jesus shall lead us to salvation!
bloodguardAug 12, 2010
We went from stone tools and walking everywhere to going to the moon in under 3000 years. What the heck were these slackers ancestors of ours doing for 3.4 million years? If they'd stepped it up a bit I'd have my fecking flying car and hooker-bot by now.
Lazy bastards.
bryceman111Aug 12, 2010
And my Mattel Hover Board.
Closed AccountAug 12, 2010
Funny, but really, there are lots of factors, more than just intelligence is required. There's social and technological determinism. I believe if another primate species were to follow us, they'd have to learn how to farm first.
joemanmanAug 12, 2010
I wonder when earlier than than previousl was.
bboyjkangAug 12, 2010
Thank you, and keep on submitting quantumcipher.
tunaktunakAug 12, 2010
I think men started using their tool as soon as they figured out how...
adamclifAug 12, 2010
Somebody should inform the Creation Museum!
cmatthes1Aug 12, 2010
<Insert Generic the Earth is only 30 years old because life didn't begin until Reagan was President comment>
mikeb3186Aug 12, 2010
Am I wrong in not giving 2/5s of a flying f**k about this?
pfhayterAug 12, 2010
Gah! I hate cliffhangers! Previousl??? You must tell me!
seandohAug 13, 2010
At least check the article title before you submi
supermastermindAug 13, 2010
I always wonder why they always fail to Acknowledge that the first tool was a stick that men used to scratch their backs.