The Children of Anaxagoras: Did hands make us human?

Perhaps a tangent, but the article opens with a claim that the Indonesian rock art is conclusively the oldest art of Homo sapiens, but strangely overlooks the art of Indigenous Australians which is at least as old, and perhaps a further 10,000 years older.

There’s a lot of fuzzy argumentation here. Hands undoubtedly make tool use easier, but simple tool use has been observed in corvids and dolphins, but there’s no sign of world domination by crows and aquatic mammals. Likewise, monkeys and non-human apes have hands and have been observed using tools, but they are certainly not human. Even raccoons have hands.

What makes us human is the combination of intelligence and tool use.

No.

> then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 2:7