'Chimpanzee 'engineers' have implications for understanding human technological evolution

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Mar 24, 2025, 2:19 pm949 ptsInterestingTop
A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools,…

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