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 the same degree in other species. To answer this question, we need to bring a long-term perspective to the material record of other members of our own order, the Primates.

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Highlights d Iberian hunter-gatherers show dual Late Pleistocene genetic ancestry d Dual hunter-gatherer ancestry is the result of admixture from different refugia d This mixed Late Pleistocene ancestry can be traced in Iberian Neolithic farmers

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