Publication Date:
2009-07-17
Description:
All modern humans use tools to overcome limitations of our anatomy and to make difficult tasks easier. However, if tool use is such an advantage, we may ask why it is not evolved to the same degree in other species. To answer this question, we need to bring a long-term perspective to the material record of other members of our own order, the Primates.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Haslam, Michael -- Hernandez-Aguilar, Adriana -- Ling, Victoria -- Carvalho, Susana -- de la Torre, Ignacio -- DeStefano, April -- Du, Andrew -- Hardy, Bruce -- Harris, Jack -- Marchant, Linda -- Matsuzawa, Tetsuro -- McGrew, William -- Mercader, Julio -- Mora, Rafael -- Petraglia, Michael -- Roche, Helene -- Visalberghi, Elisabetta -- Warren, Rebecca -- England -- Nature. 2009 Jul 16;460(7253):339-44. doi: 10.1038/nature08188.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. mah66@cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19606139" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Animals, Wild/physiology/psychology
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*Archaeology/trends
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*Behavior, Animal
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Hominidae
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Human Characteristics
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Humans
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*Primates/physiology/psychology
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*Technology/methods
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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