Thumbs up
Bruce Bower reports on some anatomical research from the meetings: “For ancient hominids, thumbs up on precision grip.”
All posts tagged with tool manufacture
What, if anything, is Australopithecus sediba?
Today we finally get to learn about the exceptional discovery of four partial hominin skeletons from Malapa Cave, South Africa. Two of the fossil skeletons a...
Orangutan music
One step closer to Ewoks:
Rooks, tools, and "domain general" cognition
Christopher Bird and Nathan Emery (2009) performed a number of tool use experiments on rooks – birds related to crows (corvids) that do not use tools in the ...
Evo-devo and HACNS1
Science has a very important paper in the current issue about the evolution of a gene enhancer in hominids, expressed in forelimb development and concentrate...