Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

I’m always leery of claims that humans are uniquely exceptional, that we are better than nonhuman animals (animals ... with their stable memories, were under no cultural-evolutionary pressure ...

CSIC's de la Torre says this signaled that early human ancestors were beginning to look at animals in a new way. Before, he says, they were viewed as predators or competitors for food sources.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos ...