Rock-smashing monkeys in Brazil make flakes like tools of human ancestors

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 14:34 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists watched as Capuchin monkeys in a national park pounded stones against each other, splitting off sharp-edged flakes that resemble cutting tools used by the forerunners of humans

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