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FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB™!
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FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB™
This multi-facetted project presents the top 100 events in the evolution of the universe, earth, life, and the human species.
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The Human Brain Evolving (2011)
The Cutting Edge (2009)
Breathing Life into Fossils (2007)
The Oldowan (2006)
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Beginning in 1990, Stone Age Institute researchers Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, in collaboration with psychologists Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Duane Rumbaugh, have been working with African apes, especially bonobos or "pygmy chimpanzees," teaching them to make and use flaked stone tools.
Watch this video clip of the ape Kanzi making and using a stone tool!
