Wed. 01/11 - Earliest Human Tools Just Monkey Business?

Were the first stone tools in the Americas made, not by ancient humans, but by monkeys? Plus, could color-changing cars be in our future? And will other nations follow New Zealand’s lead on banning cigarettes to future generations?

Links:

• Monkeys – Not Humans – Made Ancient Sets of Stone Tools in Brazil, Study Finds (ScienceAlert) 
• Scientists prove that tools attributed to ancient humans were made by ancestors of capuchin monkeys (CONICET)
• Ancient Stone Tools Once Thought to be Made by Humans Were Actually Crafted by Monkeys, Say Archaeologists (Artnet News)
• These monkeys are 3000 years into their own 'Stone Age'. (National Geographic, 2019)
• Monkeys Make Stone "Tools" That Bear a Striking Resemblance to Early Human Artifacts (Scientific American, 2017)
• Check out BMW’s color-changing concept car in action (The Verge)
• BMW's E Ink Car Wrap Just Took The Leap Into Color (Slash Gear)
• End of the cigarette? Labour unveil plan to wipe out smoking by 2030 by banning sale of tobacco (LBC)
• Cigarette sales could be banned under Labour (Wales Online)
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | 8th January 2023 (Political TV, YouTube)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.