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Chimpanzees have over the years been associated and compared with humans both in terms of appearance and mental prowess, but a growing sentiment among academics has it that the primates will never be able to actually invent things. This trait, which involves high abstractionism skills and planning ahead, seems to be reserved entirely for the human race. Apparently, chimps have the ability to use crude tools, but they are not developed by single individuals living isolated (proof of ingenuity), but by members of a pack learning from each other.“For culture to accumulate â€" to become more and more complex â€" requires innovations and one of the first ways in which hominins clearly went beyond chimpanzees was in making stone tools,” explains St. Andrew's University expert Andrew Whiten, quoted by NewScientist. He, alongside other researchers, believes that the main difference between us and primates like chimpanzees is the very way in which we learn from each other, and f!
rom the past. The modern school system should never be considered a joke after reading this. A team of experts from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, including anthropologists Claudio Tennie and Michael Tomasello, believe that the ch...
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