article_snippet.sent: While the findings may provoke some to reassess some view of the opposite sex, new research may also provide tantalising hints at how humans first learned to use weapons to hunt.
article_snippet.sent: new research suggests that early female humans were perhaps the first to begin fashioning simple tools to help early female humans catch prey.
article_snippet.sent: This was the first time that an animal was observed to make a tool and use an animal for a specific purpose, other than humans.
article_snippet.sent: Acquiring vertebrate prey via tool use at Fongoli supports the hypothesis that early hominins intensified vertebrate prey tool technology to overcome environmental pressures and that even the earliest hominins were probably sophisticated enough to fashion tools for hunting. '
article_snippet.sent: The behaviour of these chimpanzees demonstrates that hunting is less adult male-biased among our closest living relatives than previously believed when tools are used. '
article_snippet.sent: If tool use enabled early hominins to reduce the need for physical characteristics (i.e. greater size, strength) to achieve hunting efficiency, such sexual dimorphism ultimately becomes less important regarding prey acquisition.'
article_snippet.sent: Additionally, typical adult male chimpanzee arboreal hunting behaviour was unlikely to be characteristic of early bipedal hominins given the latter's anatomical differences with living apes. '
article_snippet.sent: With such anatomical changes in our lineage, tool use probably became increasingly important to hunting behaviour.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The findings may provide clues as to how humans first learned to use tools .