'Captivity bias' in animal tool use and its implications for the evolution of hominin technology

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Use of stone hammer tools and anvils by bearded capuchin monkeys over time and space: construction of an archeological record of tool use

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New wrist bones of Homo floresiensis from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)

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Identification of Learning Mechanisms in a Wild Meerkat Population

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Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

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Social networks reveal cultural behaviour in tool-using dolphins

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Sometimes tool use is not the key: no evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches

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Contact with Human Facilities Appears to Enhance Technical Skills in Wild Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops)

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Stone handling behavior in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), a behavioral propensity for solitary object play shared with Japanese macaques

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Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-Modern Human Transition

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Animal tool use: current definitions and an updated comprehensive catalog

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The fellowship of the hobbit: the fauna surrounding Homo floresiensis

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An experimental, comparative investigation of tool use in chimpanzees and gorillas

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How to crack nuts: acquisition process in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) observing a model

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Rooks Use Stones to Raise the Water Level to Reach a Floating Worm

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Tool use and physical cognition in birds and mammals

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Homo floresiensis: a cladistic analysis

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Conclusions: implications of the Liang Bua excavations for hominin evolution and biogeography

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Continuities in stone flaking technology at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia

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The foot of Homo floresiensis

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Primate archaeology

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Insightful problem solving and creative tool modification by captive nontool-using rooks

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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior

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Great apes' (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) understanding of tool functional properties after limited experience.

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The Liang Bua faunal remains: a 95k.yr. sequence from Flores, East Indonesia

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Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution

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Tool-Use Training in a Species of Rodent: The Emergence of an Optimal Motor Strategy and Functional Understanding

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Setting tool use within the context of animal construction behaviour

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The effects of group size, rate of turnover and disruption to demonstration on the stability of foraging traditions in fish

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