New Research Reveals Chimpanzees Act As “Engineers,” Choosing Tools Based on Physics

New Research Reveals Chimpanzees Act As “Engineers,” Choosing Tools Based on Physics

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool evolution. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall Institute in Tanzania, the University of Algarve, and the University [...]

How chimpanzee tool use provides insight into early human behaviour

Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more about how ancient humans learned to use tools.