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		foxglacier 4 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the ... Being in a common ancestor is certainly compatible with evolution but it's not necessary because it could have evolved independently in each branch.

adgjlsfhk1 5 minutes ago [–]

if it were only 2 primates that's a plausible explanation, but when it's pretty much every simean using tools, and all the old world apes making tools, it's pretty hard to argue for convergent evolution rather than a trait that exists ancestrally.

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