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SUBMITTER: Bril B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4614718 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bril Blandine B Parry Ross R Dietrich Gilles G
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20151101 1682
Various authors have suggested similarities between tool use in early hominins and chimpanzees. This has been particularly evident in studies of nut-cracking which is considered to be the most complex skill exhibited by wild apes, and has also been interpreted as a precursor of more complex stone-flaking abilities. It has been argued that there is no major qualitative difference between what the chimpanzee does when he cracks a nut and what early hominins did when they detached a flake from a co ...[more]