Scientists have long debated when our ancestors first mastered fire - a transformative event that shaped what early people ate and how they lived, and may even have fueled the evolution of the modern human brain. Now, the oldest evidence yet for early humans’ use of fire has emerged from a laboratory at Boston University, where researchers say they have discovered, embedded in ancient reddish slabs of sediment, microscopic flecks of apparent campfires from a million years ago.
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Very cool.
"The whole story of our evolution has been one of our, for better or worse, becoming a species that is sort of different in the extent to which we manipulate nature more than other animals". For better or worse??? that we don't just respond to nature like other animals? So much for evolution...we too could still be eating only bananas and grubs, swinging from the trees....didn't realize it's controversial that we learned to use fire, manipulate nature. But now that I see this, the fringe environmental movement makes sense. I'd miss reading books though.