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Stone Tools: The First Ever Invention

Patented: History of Inventions

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Stone Tools in the Pleistocene

John Shae: How long would you and I survive in the Pleistocene? He says we depend more on technology than earlier hominins or other primates do. We have a theory of mind that presumably other species didn't have, he says. "There seems to be a jump between nobos, crows and human beings"

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