cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40535172
“What’s really interesting about humans and their ancestors is we’re a technologically dependent species,” Finestone said. “We rely on tools. We’re obligate tool users. We don’t do it opportunistically or occasionally the way that a lot of other animals use tools. It’s really become ingrained in our way of life, in our survival, and our foraging strategies across all people and all cultures.”
The study of early hominins (our cousins) and the many branches in the path of our evolution is easily my favorite area of science. This topic is evergreen, with new discoveries every year that frequently upend our understanding of the landscape. Dinos and the like are fave number two.
Am I the only one who initially saw the name as flintstone?
Also he had to have a job like that with a name like Finestone. A geologist would have been better, nobody’s perfect.
What’s the new discovery I’m too drunk to care about reading articles
Probably refering to those 3.3 million year old stone tools found in Kenya that show tool use way before we thought - pushes tool use back to before Homo genus even existed.
Tools, work processes, and movement of material were found earlier than previously known.
Fossilized corn dogs were discovered in the Maïschien region of France
Those are maize dogs if they’re from that region of France. They’re just corn dogs if they come from anywhere else.
I’d say they’re only corn dogs in the US (or maybe North America) and maize dogs everywhere else, because that’s how the terms corn and maize are used.
Yes, we (I’m speaking for the entire non-US world) also enjoy our popped maize and maizeflakes.
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So our plan is to tool our way into destroying the planet… Then try to tool our way out of destroying the planet?
If we hit the climate with a rock, then maybe we can … cut the climate in two and eat it.
“Greetings to all intelligent life in the universe! And to the rest of you out there, the secret is ‘bang the rocks together’ guys!”
If one of you motherfuckers invents the wheel I’ll freak out right now
So they contextualised an activity as intelligent based off of human activities, then found that they deemed humans as intelligent based on the same criteria.
What a shocker.
