You’re not missing much, maybe just an implicit and aging position in the field. People have made the argument (in the long line of “this is what makes humans u

You’re not missing much, maybe just an implicit and aging position in the field. People have made the argument (in the long line of “this is what makes humans unique” arguments) that our consistent use of technology is what separates us from other animals. In order to do so they’ve tried to argue that other early primates or hominins apparently outside the human lineage did not. It has been clear for some time to most reasonable observers that this is not the case. This is just more data that tool use and tool-making are more broadly distributed than the anthropocentrically-fixated would like to admit.