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The Broken Stones of Monkeys Look Uncannily Like Something We Used to Make

Science Alert

By Michelle Starr

March 11, 2023

We humans may no longer have tails, but perhaps we have more in common with our smaller primate relatives than we thought.

An analysis of accidentally broken stones used by macaques to crack nuts shows that monkeys have inadvertently been fracturing chunks of rock startlingly similar to the intentionally-created tools found at the world’s earliest known archaeological sites in Africa.

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