Tool Summary

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  • 4 Encyclopedia Articles

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Encyclopedia Articles (4)

1,538 words, approx. 6 pages
Tool Use Until quite recently, tool use was considered to be a uniquely human behavior. Early anthropologists taught that the use of tools was limited to Homo sapiens and used the presence of tools as... Read more
1,052 words, approx. 4 pages
Tools, Types Of Just like mechanics and technicians on Earth, astronauts use a variety of manual and portable power tools in space to repair, service, and maintain spacecraft, like the space shuttle a... Read more
1,732 words, approx. 6 pages
Animal Tools "Tools maketh man," so said Kenneth Oakley, the pre-historian. He meant that only human beings make tools of flaked stone. More generally, many species of animals make and u... Read more
1,122 words, approx. 4 pages
Tools and Machines Tools and machines are almost universally thought of as beneficial, which would make their invention morally praiseworthy. Indeed, without tools it is difficult to see how human bei... Read more