Our Potato Tooth Originated 5 Million Years Ago With the Common Chimp/Human Ancestor

You cannot live without French fries and chips, can you? Well, it seems this has something to do with our remote ancestry. Anthropologist Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar of the University of Southern California has found for the first time proofs that chimps dig by using tools in order to eat tuber... [ read more >> ]

Digging sticks employed by chimps at Ugalla

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Image credits: Michael Nichols/NGS (top)/ Ugalla Primate Project (bottom)

Digging sticks employed by chimps at Ugalla