Tool usage harms brains: Chilling warning to tribes, from top neanderthal opinion former.

The increased use of stone tools and sharpened flints is causing serious harm to homo sapiens, particularly the development of their young, according to an eminent neanderthal, speaking at the annual anthropogenesis congress yesterday.

Tools made from stone and flint, when combined with strategies of cooperation amongst groups, are said to shorten hunt times, encourage speedier relief from hunger and as a result encourage lazy hunting and gathering practices.

The claims, made by Maily Daily, a leading voice of the neanderthal 'Movement for Attenuated Development' (MAD), will come as a worrying wake-up call for the thousands of families who had been reaping long-term gains from the use of stone tools as part of their daily lives.  

However, Maily Daily has struck a chord with the many neanderthal tribal leaders who are concerned with the technology that is ruining homo sapiens youth. "This new reliance on sharpened stones and group strategies has rendered the younger generation of homo sapiens virtually incapable of understanding the basic need to be able to scrape an existience with only their bare hands whilst living permanantly on the edge of extinction." 

Maily Daily went on to explain that, "They are throwing away millenia of experience and tradition for a brief flirtation with these untried technologies".

MAD, the neanderthal think tank, has also argued that these new tools and communication techniques are changing the way that homo sapiens thinks. Crude maps have begun appearing on cave walls reducing the reliance on traditional skills such as navigation by sun, stars and total guesswork. Indeed, homo sapiens has even begun venturing outside historic territory and is being exposed to new sights and sounds, that could threaten neanderthal culture.

Maily Daily concludes, "It is hard to see how this mass participation in the use of 'tools' and 'community' will not result in brains, or rather minds, different to those of previous generations. We neanderthals are not against the introduction of tools and communication, but the inherent risks are simply too great to allow this progress to take hold. If neanderthals don't take a stand now then we may, in just a few generations, be witenessing the sad demise of the overly adventurous and inqusitive homo sapiens"