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These days, homo sapiens is more like 300-350 ky old, and (Lomekwian) tool industry is 3.4 My old : https://tauromachy.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/the-lomekwi-too

These days, homo sapiens is more like 300-350 ky old, and (Lomekwian) tool industry is 3.4 My old : https://tauromachy.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/the-lomekwi-tools-and-how-we-maybe-almost-were-not/ https://tauromachy.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/the-lomekwi-tool... Which puts into question the naming of homo habilis (="handy man", that 2.5 My old Oldowan tool industry you seem to mention comes from) and australopithecus (responsible for Lomekwian) as "not-homo". Tool use is of course much older (other primates) and other animals also do it : dolphins, crows... Can this capuchin-monkey example be called "tool industry" ?

wolverine876 4y ago
Who wrote that? They seem clear that they have no expertise. https://tauromachy.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/a-kind-of-introduction/ https://tauromachy.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/a-kind-of-introd...
- BlueTemplar 4y ago
  Lou Keep. Also known for : https://loukeep.substack.com/p/vagaries https://loukeep.substack.com/p/vagaries But especially : https://samzdat.com/ https://samzdat.com/ They might not have expertise, but they know how to write. And (from my own, admittedly layman's searches) I haven't seen anything contradicting the main claims.
  - wolverine876 4y ago
    > They might not have expertise, but they know how to write. That describes the sophists (by the modern meaning), those who can communicate persuasively but are liars. I'd much rather have the opposite.
    - BlueTemplar 4y ago
      No, it doesn't : to be able to lie you need to have expertise. You can bullshit though. Or, and so far this is my impression here, you can also take the expertise of others and present it better (that's what the best science journalists do !)