Metamorphosis pt. 2: The Cognitive Evolutionary Avant-Garde
Fight Like An Animal
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The Evolution of the Human Brain
There's no archaeological agreement about where fire starts in the human evolutionary journey they've got it up like after you know like less than a million years ago with an asterisk that says timing uncertain. I really strongly agree with Richard Rangham and others who think that control of fire and consistent use of cooking characterizes the evolutionary transition to Homo erectus there's a variety of reasons to think this right so thatThat's way earlier when when does Homo erectus emerge that's almost two million years ago right or either a variety of lines of evidence we get this massive increase in our cranial volume which would have occurred through fire.
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