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Humans Used Tools Earlier Than Thought

August 17, 2010 | ISSUE 46•33

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?

  • 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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