Thread: Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?

Lucy was not a member of the family Homo Sapiens, she predates these tools by about 2 million years. She was one of the original hominids - That is to say, she was bipedal.
National Geographic is certainly pretty credible as a source, but I don't see why hominids prior to homo sapiens can't have made these tools....Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon men were capable of tool use, it's just a question of how far back this ability stretches, surely? All this evidence seems to say to me is that hominids prior to homo sapiens were capable of creating tools like this, it seems unnecessary to invoke our species without direct evidence of their existence here.