{"id":7959,"date":"2016-11-15T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T17:34:46","slug":"monkey-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/15\/monkey-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/10\/19\/monkeys-create-stone-tools-forcing-scientists-to-rethink-human-e\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Monkeys create stone tools forcing scientists to rethink human evolution<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"byline__author-name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/sarah-knapton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Knapton<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"byline__author-role\">science editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/science\/2016\/10\/19\/monkey2-large_trans++EDjTm7JpzhSGR1_8ApEWQA1vLvhkMtVb21dMmpQBfEs.jpg\" alt=\"Capuchin stone on stone percussion: an active hammerstone fragmenting during use\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"article-body-image-caption\">Capuchin stone on stone percussion: an active hammerstone fragmenting during use\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"article-body-image-copyright\"><span class=\"article-body-image-copyright-label\">CREDIT:<\/span>\u00a0M.HASLAM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The path of human\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/07\/29\/how-parka-jackets-saved-early-humans-from-the-chilly-fate-of-the\/\" target=\"_blank\">evolution\u00a0<\/a>may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce \u2018tool-like flakes\u2019 that were thought to be uniquely man-made.In a discovery that calls into question decades of research, a band of wild bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil were seen hammering rocks to extract minerals, causing large flakes to fly off.<\/p>\n<p>Previously archaeologists believed the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/environment\/archaeology\/11618321\/Ancient-tool-discovery-shows-our-ancestors-were-smarter-than-previously-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\">flakes\u00a0<\/a>were only made by humans through a process called \u2018stone-knapping\u2019 where a larger rock is hammered with another stone to produce sharp blade-like slivers which can be used for arrows, spears or knives.<\/p>\n<p>The flakes were thought to represent a turning point in human evolution because they demonstrated a level of planning, cognition and hand manipulation that could not be achieved by other animals.<\/p>\n<p>But the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature20112\" target=\"_blank\">new research<\/a>\u00a0suggests that flakes can be made without any such foresight. In fact they can simply be made by accident.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/10\/19\/monkeys-create-stone-tools-forcing-scientists-to-rethink-human-e\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph Monkeys create stone tools forcing scientists to rethink human evolution By\u00a0Sarah Knapton,\u00a0science editor Capuchin stone on stone percussion: an active hammerstone fragmenting during use\u00a0CREDIT:\u00a0M.HASLAM The path of human\u00a0evolution\u00a0may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce \u2018tool-like flakes\u2019 that were thought to be uniquely man-made.In a discovery that calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}