Unearthing the earliest examples of monkey tools outside of Africa

Published on
Tuesday 12 July 2016
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In their paper, published in Current Biology, they suggest that this finding raises questions about the origins and spread of tool use in New World monkeys and, controversially perhaps, prompts us to look at whether early human behaviour was influenced by their observations of monkeys using stones as tools.