How Technology is Transforming Our Understanding of Culture and Society
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For instance, researchers have noticed wild chimpanzees using fundamental foraging instruments, pestles, levers, utilizing leaves as sponges, and tree bark or vines as probes to fish termites. West African chimpanzees use stone hammers and anvils for cracking nuts, as do capuchin monkeys of Boa Vista, Brazil. Tool use isn’t the only form of animal technology use; for example, beaver dams, constructed with wood sticks or giant stones, are a technology with “dramatic” impacts on river habitats and ecosystems. Many discoveries additionally arose from pure probability, like the discovery of penicillin because of accidental lab contamination.…
