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This release is available in German. An international team of researchers, including Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (USA) and Dr. Shannon McPherron of ...

A new study published in iScience details more than 60 tools made of bone and one tool made from the tooth of a cetacean. These finds, first unearthed from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco in 2011, are ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.

The invention of clothing, and the development of the tools needed to create it, are milestones in the story of humanity. Not only are they indicative of strides in cultural and cognitive evolution, ...