A 3 Million-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite the History of Intelligent Life on Earth

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8. Probably olderr than that, even

After all, chimps and bonobos, from whom we split off 6 million years ago, have been observed using sticks and stones to catch and prepare their foods. Some birds use tools. Critters are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for and I'm sure that if we didn't figger it out on out own, we learned from them.

Sadly, the Orrorin tugenensis fossil they've found and managed to date didn't have anything with him/her that survived for 5.8-6.2 million years, so we don't know what they were capable of. It seems to me they might have been capable of banging two rocks together to crack nuts, at least.