Humans Used Tools Earlier Than Thought

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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

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"You don't need to tell me how cool humans are, sir. I already know."

Frank Richards • Stamping-Press Operator