Stone tools reveal modern human-like gripping capabilities 500,000 years ago

EurekAlert! ^ | August 20, 2018 | University of Kent

[SunkenCiv]

Comparison between a Handaxe and a Clovis Point. Credit: Alastair Key and Metin Eren

[SunkenCiv]

[be-baw]

Opposable thumbs. It’s as simple as that...

[Blue House Sue]

And from there, it took us 490,000 years to invent the Selfie Stick.

[freedumb2003]

Top: Implementation by Indian coders: exactly meets specifications

Bottom: Implementation by American developers who asked "so, exactly what do you want to do with this thing?"

Sorry -- frustrating day with Indians but everyone who has worked with them must admit I am right.

[DannyTN]

If man had the ability to construct and grasp tools 500,000 years ago, he would have proliferated and the evidence of his existence would be overwhelming instead of rare.

[Verginius Rufus]

Early man was doing his best to proliferate 500,000 years ago, but too many of them were getting stomped on by brontosauruses.

[MUDDOG]

[CJ Wolf]

Opossum have opposable thumbs.

[equaviator]

[DannyTN]

That doesn’t work. According to evolutionists, Bronto’s lived 150 million years ago, so weren’t around 500,000 years ago to stomp man.

If man was smart enough to make tools, and lived in communities, I don’t think anything could have stopped him.

It’s so easy a caveman could do it.

[TheZMan]

Quite, in fact.

[GnuThere]

Did the ancestors look like that Dr who got busted for dancing during surgeries?

[freedumb2003]

>>If man had the ability to construct and grasp tools 500,000 years ago, he would have proliferated and the evidence of his existence would be overwhelming instead of rare.<<

Complete non sequitur.

[DannyTN]

You go back and time and say “complete non sequitur” to a tribe of men wielding stone tools. We’ll see who proliferates.

[a fool in paradise]

common core cavemen told those who tried making tools to quit ruining rocks and “trying to be something you’re not”.

[freedumb2003]

ou go back and time and say “complete non sequitur” to a tribe of men wielding stone tools. We’ll see who proliferates.

Set the date to 500,000 years ago, Sherman!

Coordinates set... wait!

[PLMerite]

“And from there, it took us 490,000 years to invent the Selfie Stick.”

Hey, they were busy gripping something else...

[Sirius Lee]

[njslim]

Split finger fastball …??