Brazilian capuchins have been monkeying around with stone tools for hundreds of years, Oxford University scientists have discovered. The primates have been observed using stones as hammers and anvils ...

An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Tomos Proffitt from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, made a discovery that challenges long-held theories of human evolution. The ...

Behavioural adaptability in primates is widely known. However, the role of local landscape metrics on the use of stone tool sites remains poorly understood. Therefore, we tested whether the distance ...