Modern humans rely entirely on technology for their subsistence, and the interaction between technological and biological adaptations has played a key role in the evolution of our lineage. When exactly technology emerged in the fossil record and thus started to shape primate evolution has appealed to researchers since the beginnings of paleoanthropology as a discipline and, as Braun et al. (1) show in PNAS, is still today a source of important discoveries.

I.d.l.T.’s research was supported by the European Research Council (Starting Grant 283366)

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