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22 - Ape Implements

Making and Using Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt
Kevin D. Hunt
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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If you were asked to say how similar human and chimpanzee technology is, your mind’s eye might drift toward an image of a chimpanzee grasping a straw-like termiting stick or cracking nuts with a stone hammer. You might choose an airplane or a car to represent human technology. This comparison shows up chimpanzee cultural objects as profoundly simple, but we should keep in mind that our current level of sophistication, even many of our simplest tools, is of recent origin. This is an unfair comparison.

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Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
 , pp. 404 - 418
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  • Ape Implements
  • Kevin D. Hunt, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Book: Chimpanzee
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