This review summarizes evidence from randomized controlled trials to examine whether
strength training influences anxiety, chronic pain, cognition, depression, fatigue symptoms …

All modern humans use tools to overcome limitations of our anatomy and to make difficult
tasks easier. However, if tool use is such an advantage, we may ask why it is not evolved to …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

Was stone tool making a factor in the evolution of human hand morphology? Is it possible to
find evidence in fossil hominin hands for this capability? These questions are being …

All investigated cases of habitual tool use in wild chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys
include youngsters encountering durable artefacts, most often in a supportive social context …

Percussive tool use holds special interest for scientists concerned with human origins. We
summarize the findings from two field sites, Taï and Fazenda Boa Vista, where percussive …

Chimpanzees have been the traditional referential models for investigating human evolution
and stone tool use by hominins. We enlarge this comparative scenario by describing …

Animals (including humans) use objects to solve problems or accomplish goals in diverse
ways. Sometimes while doing so they achieve a mechanical effect on a target object or …

To determine whether tool use varied in relation to food availability in bearded capuchin
monkeys, we recorded anvil and stone hammer use in two sympatric wild groups, one of …