Does New Evidence Show Chimpanzees Are ���Engineers���?

Did you know chimpanzees are apparently ���engineers���? Yes, a new study claims chimpanzees have ���folk physics��� and use ���rudimentary engineering��� as they use sticks to pull termites out of mounds. And why is this so exciting to the researchers? Well, because they believe it informs our understanding of early human evolution, of course.

So what is the observational evidence the researchers discovered? Well, they found that chimpanzees select plant material that is more flexible, heavily ...