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Letter: Early humans probably didn't need baby slings (2)

Published 4 December 2024

From Richard Grimmer, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK

If anyone still feels that tool use is what turned our animal ancestors into our human ancestors, may I suggest that the dividing line was when the first hominin used a leaf as toilet paper, though I doubt that any evidence survives.

Issue no. 3520 published 7 December 2024

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