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Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

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The research unveils a more intricate narrative of innovation, intelligence, and human evolution in East Asia.

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