Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the city of Leipzig, Germany, claimed that some accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts. Note: Licensed content. ( Lydia V. Luncz/Newsflash)
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14 March 2023
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New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology made the bizarre discovery while they were studying macaque monkeys...