Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution

Mongabay
Dec 13, 2022, 7:02 am114 pts
The dents and dings on the surfaces of rocks used by chimpanzees to crack open nuts preserve a history of how the animals used the tools and how those patterns change from one troop to the next, researchers reported recently in Royal Society Open Science. This archaeological data can offer insights into the…

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