AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Tides of History
The Evolution of Tools
There actually was no sharp break between our definite ancestors and these earlier Australopithecines. Various groups co-existed, mixed, interbred, learned about tools, forgot about tools, and again expanded and disappeared. The early tools, like those of the old one industry, were simple. They don't even look like much of anything if you don't know what you're looking for. Just some sharp flakes broken off of cores, most of them roundish river cobbles. It's only recently that humanity became this planet's sole occupants.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode