Re: Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins

  Primum Sapienti wrote:
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As I've pointed out a million times...
#1.  Chimps are NOT an analog for human ancestors. They're too
recent. They clearly evolved from an upright walker who in all
but total certainty used tools.
#2.  Calling rocks "Tools" doesn't elevate the chimp, it lowers
them. By such idiotic standards, countless animals including
birds and invertebrates us "Tools." It literally renders the
history of "Tools" unknown AND UNKNOWABLE, as we can't possibly
rule out their use -- as you enforce the term -- even back
to the Cambrian!
You're not advancing science, you're rendering it pointless.
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