Tools is the theme of these Dragonfly pages. In these high-tech times, it's easy to forget how important simple tools are to human beings, to our pre-human ancestors, and to our primate "cousins."
Learn
about how Jane Goodall
and Wolfgang Kohler
observed chimpanzees making tools.
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See how experimental archaeologists Nick
Toth and Kathy Schick, figured out how our ancient ancestors made tools by
making Stone Age tools themselves.
.Become
a research assistant and
design an experiment
to see if chimps are really
able to make tools.
Make
a tool to protect an egg if it dropped from
a second-story window.
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