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'Chimpanzee 'engineers' have implications for understanding human technological evolution

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A team of researchers led by the University of Oxford has discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools.

They found that chimpanzees deliberately choose plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools for termite fishing.

Findings have important implications for understanding the technical abilities associated with the making of perishable tools.

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