Researchers now believe that symbolic creativity was part of our cognitive abilities as we spread from Africa. Once again, unique human identity is challenged by apes and monkeys, but humans still maintain their advanced cognitive level by being able to make symbols from scratch, which the others cannot. Early hominin tool making reveals the cognitive ability to see a future finished product from a current raw material. Furthermore, they went beyond the minimum required process for a tool to work by decorating and making the tools beautiful in some cases, mixing the functional with the
Researchers now believe that symbolic creativity was part of our cognitive abilities as we spread from Africa. Once again, unique human identity is challenged by apes and monkeys, but humans still maintain their advanced cognitive level by being able to make symbols from scratch, which the others cannot. Early hominin tool making reveals the cognitive ability to see a future finished product from a current raw material. Furthermore, they went beyond the minimum required process for a tool to work by decorating and making the tools beautiful in some cases, mixing the functional with the