[HN Gopher] Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made...
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Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made by monkeys:
archaeologists
Author : thunderbong
Score : 51 points
Date : 2023-09-21 19:21 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ljlolel wrote:
| And the females throw rocks at potential mates as a way of
| demonstrating sexual interest.
| AA-BA-94-2A-56 wrote:
| Sounds like my wife.
| nvy wrote:
| Relevant Worf:
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPtcN2rU_EM
| knightofmars wrote:
| To add context, I don't believe this comment was intended as a
| joke and others shouldn't down-vote it as such due to the
| sibling comment made in poor taste.
|
| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
| satvikpendem wrote:
| Seems like it's not that major of a blow, just that human
| creation of such tools requires a higher standard of evidence
| now, such as "concrete traces of dietary remains or hearths--
| charcoal at the site could have originated from naturally
| occurring fires," as the article says. Ultimately, though, the
| farther we go back, the harder it will be to tell human-made from
| other primate-made tools, as the other pieces of evidence more
| readily decompose.
| astrange wrote:
| It's so sad we have to kill these intelligent creatures just to
| make cappucinos.
| ben0x539 wrote:
| - me when i reread some really old code i wrote
| AA-BA-94-2A-56 wrote:
| Me when I read code I wrote earlier today.
| rgrieselhuber wrote:
| "We are confident that...they may not be..." -- doesn't sound
| very confident.
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