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<p>UC Berkeley News Center</p>
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<p>World’s oldest butchery tools gave evolutionary edge to human communication</p>
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<p>Two and a half million years ago, our hominin ancestors in the African savanna crafted rocks into shards that could slice apart a dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal. Over the next 700,000 years, this butchering technology spread throughout the continent
and, it turns out, came to be a major evolutionary force, according to new research from UC Berkeley, the University of Liverpool and the University of St. Andrews, both in the UK.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/13/stone-age-tools/">https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/13/stone-age-tools/</a></p>
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