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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/09/extinct-early-hominids-may-have-making-tools-humans/
The creation of sophisticated stone tools was thought to be
a uniquely human trait, requiring planning and dexterity not
possessed by any other species.
But a new find in Kenya has turned the theory on its head. A
toolkit of hammerstones, cores and cutting flakes has been
found along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria, dating
from around 2.9 million years ago.
. . .
Ummmmmmm ....... "tools" go WAY WAY back. Even "Lucy"'s
people had small toolkits. Homo Hablis, the "Handy Man",
had a much bigger/better toolkit. All this was LONG
before sapiens.sapiens. Even chimps/bonobos make "tools",
though not a 'permanent' kind by altering stone bits.
So what's with this article ???
"Journalists" with ZERO ed in paleontology completely
misunderstanding a research article ??? The orig was
in 'Science' (which I recently dropped in favor of
'Nature' because I don't have the time for lots of
periodicals anymore).
Hey, maybe ChatGPT or worse wrote it hmm ? :-)
Probably "or worse" - I see Google lost lots of $$$
the other day by rushing its version to market. In
any case, since accuracy/sense no longer seems to
be a requirement for "journalism", ChatGPT is gonna
send them ALL to McDonalds jobs (but McDonalds is
going 'AI'/robotics as fast as it can so ....)
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