When you put on the mitts and try to build a structure, you will get a sense of how hard it would be to do things that we do every day if our hands were shaped differently.
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The modern human brain is the largest and most complex of any living primate. As you discovered in this activity, it is also larger than the brains of our ancient human ancestors. Our ancestors had brains closer in size to a chimpanzee than to a modern human.
It is possible to learn more about the environment where animals live by studying the animals themselves.
