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Things made by humans are called artifacts. Artifacts can be generalized to anything made by a biological population. An ants nest or a beehive or a termite mound is an artifact made by populations of ant, bee or termite colonies. The space of artifacts is part of what Dawkins called the extended phenotype or Lewontin saw as the various feedback loops of adaptation between the environment and a biological population.
The term tool has many different definitions but all tools are artifacts. A chair by most definitions is not a tool but it is definitely an artifact and part of the human extended phenotype. Only humans are known to make tools to make tools.
Chairs have a history, purpose (to sit on,) and a life span. Chairs are replicated (built) and then selected (bought.)
What is the information content of a chair?
