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Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology

It is hypothesized that tool-assisted excavation of plant underground storage organs (USOs) played an adaptive role in hominin evolution and was also once considered a uniquely human behavior. Recent data indicate that savanna chimpanzees also use tools to excavate edible USOs. However, those chimpa...

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Autores principales: Motes-Rodrigo, Alba, Majlesi, Parandis, Pickering, Travis Rayne, Laska, Matthias, Axelsen, Helene, Minchin, Tanya C., Tennie, Claudio, Hernandez-Aguilar, R. Adriana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31091268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215644