“Our work suggests that digging for insects when food was scarce may have contributed to hominid cognitive evolution and set the stage for advanced tool use.”
Well, what about trying to figure out how to get a cork out of a wine bottle when it breaks apart? What about trying to find the edge of the plastic wrap? What about trying to fix a zip lock bag when you’ve accidentally pulled the little slider off? What about trying to get a vending machine to accept a wrinkled dollar? We have all kinds of problems to solve. We should all be incredible geniuses.
That’s a great post.