How did we discover fire?
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Are Homosepians Using Fire?
There's an increase in sights with fire evidence in lots of places around three to 400 thousand years ago. It seems to be quite well associated with what humans were doing in that location. So at that time we seemed to have homosepians, was probably already around in north and subsarin africa. And from the genetic data, we know later on that all these different populations of hominents were interacting and exchanging genes. Were they also swapping fire secrets? We think that because there's this distinctive pattern where you have more convincing evidence from this particular time perid say, around 350 thousand years ago, in several areas. I mean, i've literally just learnt how to start a
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