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Comment on “Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus ”

Published:2015-06-05 Issue:6239 Volume:348 Page:1101-1101
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Almécija Sergio¹²³,Wallace Ian J.⁴,Judex Stefan⁵,Alba David M.³,Moyà-Solà Salvador⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.

2. Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Science and Engineering Hall, 800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

3. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

4. Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.

5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.

6. ICREA at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica (Departament BABVE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-CP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

Skinner and colleagues (Research Article, 23 January 2015, p. 395), based on metacarpal trabecular bone structure, argue that Australopithecus africanus employed human-like dexterity for stone tool making and use 3 million years ago. However, their evolutionary and biological assumptions are misinformed, failing to refute the previously existing hypothesis that human-like manipulation preceded systematized stone tool manufacture, as indicated by the fossil record.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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