A new study reveals that early humans' ability to use tools precisely may have been pivotal in human evolution. By recording ...

Chimpanzees use tools in sequences, planning and adapting actions like humans. This suggests the roots of complex human ...

Research indicates that the complex behaviors used in human language and tool making, such as organizing actions into sequences, may have evolved in our common ancestors with chimpanzees. This study ...

"Technological innovations were crucial for human evolution," says Karakostis. "We are interested in what cognitive developments were necessary for the use of relatively simple stone tools—and ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

tool use may have driven the further evolution of the human hand. Individuals whose hands happened to be better adapted for tool use would tend to be better nourished and to successfully raise ...

Researchers led by Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Center for ...

These dates are only approximate, as the tools have been dated from the environments they were found in. This is often the layer of sediment that surrounds the tool. Dating can be done by ...

The finding provides further evidence that tool use started long before the ... In a study published in the November issue of the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers examined muscle attachment ...