From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 13:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Anthropologists have long made the case that tool-making is one of the key behaviors that separated our human ancestors from other primates. A new article, however, argues that it was not tool-making that set hominins apart -- it was the miniaturization of tools.

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