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The Discovery of Fire (Encore)

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The Evolution of Fire

Fire was around before humans, so the discovery of fire would probably just have been whoever we defined to be the first human being. pinning down exactly when we became human isn't easy. We can confidently put the use of fire by humans as late as 400,000 years ago. The latest estimates for when humans may have started to use fire is anywhere from 1.7 to 2 million years ago.

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