Kanzi the Toolmaker

[evilyig]

There is one thing here that makes it amazing you're ignoring regardless of how you feel he learned to make the tool, what is important is he realized the first blade was not sharp enough so he went back to make a better one. If one understands natural selection, the implications here are that this species has the capability for culture, it's just waiting for events to fall into place to promote the process in nature,  a process which we managed to somehow be a product of.

[28Vikings28ALLDAY]

wow.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

truely

[KARIN094]

Brilliant. I bet those bannanas were great :)

[vitr1ol]

was he shown "how to cut through the rope with the flake you make like this" or was he just shown "how to make the flake" and then used abstraction to realise it would cut the rope? If it's the latter, it's very impressive, if the former.. no so much.

[FundedByTheMob]

so cool to see that... wonder if kanzi's offspring will acquire the same ability to make tools, and after generations of tool making, find different utilities for the sharp objects, thug making new tools, more functionality.

in the year 3025, kanjis relatives will be straight up Neanderthal.

[aversion2k]

Well.. If they are taught. And if the researchers only allow the smarter offspring to breed.

But it would take a very very long time before you saw anything you could compare to a neanderthal. Assuming it is even possible to shape the course of their evolution.

[asdfqwerty2000]

amazing!