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Tool Use By Humans Pushed Back By 800,000 Years
gpronger writes "The journal Nature reports that newly discovered tool marks on bones indicates that we were using tools at minimum 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. This places the start of tool use at 3.4 million years ago or earlier. The most likely ancestor in this time frame would be Australopithecus afarensis. The researchers, led by palaeoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the California Academy of Science, San Francisco,and Shannon McPherron, (an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany) state that cut marks on the bones of an impala-sized creature and another closer in size to a buffalo, indicate butchering of the animals by our distant ancestors. However, they do not believe that they were in fact hunters, more likely scavenging the remains left behind by large predators."
How many early humans were tools ...
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Sigh... Can't we ever have a slashdot story involving evolution with out bringing up creationism debates. Either as a lame old joke or a more serious commentary? You guys are so fixated on this debate and you only put more fuel to the fire to the creationist vocal minority.
Yes yes we know intelligent design isn't science.
Most religious people understand that first few chapters were in mediphore and written to make it a good story.
And there is a vocal group of people who are just as obsessed and are trying to block it's teaching.
We know that. Now can we get onto the science.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Sadly, I have no mod points today, so rather than correct this, I have to point out that whoever modded this "Troll" clearly left their ability to recognize humor and wit in their jammies when they got up this morning. Idiot!
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.