Humans Used Tools Earlier Than Thought
According to the current issue of Nature, scientists found two scored mammal bones demonstrating that humanoids used tools to cut meat 3.39 million years ago, nearly a million years earlier than previously thought. What do you think?
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That's pretty clever if the tool was a knife, but pretty dumb if they were trying to use a spoon to cut meat."
Tom Ribot
Pad Assembler -
Just today I was using scissors and felt them cut through a coupon with the ease of 3.39 million years' experience encoded into my genes."
Sandy Quine
Third Assistant Engineer -
You don't need to tell me how cool humans are, sir. I already know."
Frank Richards
Stamping-Press Operator
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