Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Ancient Chimps ‘Used Stone Tools’

			November 28, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

New Kind of Power Plant Gets Energy From Salt Water

U.N. Combats Violence Against Women, With Help From Men

Obama's Thankless Thanksgiving

I'm a Top

2003 Nobel Winner Says Iran Took Her Medal

India May Hold the Whip Hand in Dubai Power Game
By Robert Fisk

Purloined E-Mails Don’t Change the Facts
By Eugene Robinson

Understanding Our Hollow ‘Centrists’
By Joe Conason

Obama’s Thankless Thanksgiving
By E.J. Dionne

Polls Show Conservative Ahead as Honduras Vote Nears

U.S. Still Running Secret Jails

Halt! Who Grows There?

Bloomberg Dug Deep Into His Own Pockets to Win Third Term

Global Markets Hit by Dubai’s Debt Crisis

Report: Irish Catholic Church Kept Child Abuse Secret

‘Left, Right & Center’: America the Ungovernable?

U.N. Combats Violence Against Women, With Help From Men

Palin Still Gets Huckabee’s Vote (Against Obama)

Home Sales Jump 10.1% in October

‘Call of Duty’ Game Franchise Busts Sales Records

Fred Branfman on ‘The Making of an Elder Culture’
By Fred Branfman

Swiss Court Accepts Polanski’s $4.5M Bail Request

Sarkozy’s Bid to Move Camus’ Ashes Stirs Controversy

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race

By Eugene Robinson

“To Everything There is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

By Allan M. Winkler
$16.29

Women’s T-Shirt

$18

Ancient Chimps ‘Used Stone Tools’

BBC:

Chimpanzees in West Africa used stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago.

The discovery represents the oldest evidence of tool use by our closest evolutionary relative.

The skill could have been inherited from a common ancestor of chimps and humans, the authors say, or learnt from humans by imitation.

Alternatively, humans and chimps may have developed tool use independently, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal reports.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: chimpanzee evolution tool

Related Entries

September 17, 2009 T. Rex in Miniature
September 14, 2009 Godless Darwin Movie Too Sciency for God-Loving America
June 19, 2009 Troy Jollimore on God’s Evolution
March 24, 2009 Elvis Evolution
February 24, 2009 Murdoch Apologizes for Chimp Cartoon

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Ancient Chimps ‘Used Stone Tools’

Next item: Ancient Chimps ‘Used Stone Tools’

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By GW=MCHammered, February 14, 2007 at 1:05 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

So, the Earth Zoo Genome Project began by scientists from Alpha Centauri failed with chimps but took hold with genus Hominidae. No wonder they abandoned the amock venture.

Report this

By george S Semsel, February 14, 2007 at 12:22 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

The Democrats should take note.

Report this

By Kol Klink, February 14, 2007 at 10:51 am #
(Unregistered commenter)

Is it possible the chimp was named George?

Report this

By Dennis D, February 13, 2007 at 11:46 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

“Chimpanzees in West Africa used stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago”

Congress passes non-binding resolutions in 2007.

The chimps are still ahead of us. So much for the theory of evolution - sorry Darwin.

Report this

By trantieungoc, February 13, 2007 at 10:00 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

At last we have found Bush/Cheney cousins. How lucky they are ?

Report this

By Robert Hutwohl, February 13, 2007 at 9:14 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

This is fine other than the fact that it should have said de-evolutionary relative, NOT evolutionary relative. There is no evidence that humans evolved from apes/anthropoids; rather it is the reverse.

Report this

By Terry Sloth, February 13, 2007 at 7:25 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

Is it possible that one chimp was named Adam and the other was named Eve.

Report this