Dr Metin Eren flintknapping stone tools: The researchers say that it's unlikely our evolutionary predecessors shaped tools by accident -- and instead shaped flint to be hard-wearing and have a good centre of gravity.
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This is an important discovery for the future of technology.
I’m calling venture capitalists first thing tomorrow morning.
Neanderthals had a technology that was so elegant it lasted essentially unchanged for 100,000 years.
I consider the fact that process specs I wrote 20 years ago are still in use a MAJOR accomplishment.
100,000 years. That’s humbling.
I call BS...they were NOT our ancestors...the best data we have at this time says that Asians and Europeans owe between 1.5% and 4% of their genomes to Neanderthals. I had myself tested, and my percentage is 2.7%, compared to the average of 2.6% for my comparator population (northern European).
When I told some of my friends of the Neanderthal finding for me, they all said things similar to "Well, THAT explains a lot." With friends like these...
Neandertals were monkeys.
Neanderthals & tools.
You are both so here is a ping.
Neanderthals were not Homo Sapiens (our species), Cro-Magnons were, thus the latter were our ancestors and not the former.
"One word: flint."