Jill D. Pruetz, an anthropologist from Iowa State University, has observed chimpanzees in West Africa making spears from sticks and using them to hunt small mammals. This is the first time the routine production of deadly weapons has been observed in animals other than humans.
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my academic interest is design. I use this word not simply in its normative artifactual sense, but in its larger sense of purposeful action in all aspects of human experience. In this general sense, design is how we convert what is into what we would like. Purposeful action is thought by some researchers to be solely human behavior. I disagree, and Dr. Pruetz'z work lends credibility to the line of thought I'm pursuing.
Thus Again Spoke Zarathustra!
Anyone know if the anthropologist mentioned coming across a large slab-like monolith near the troop of chimps in question?
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