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The Discovery of Fire (Encore)

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The Evolution of the Human Body

Richard Wangram is an anthropologist and a primatologist from Harvard. His hypothesis is that the evolutionary changes in the human body can be explained via the use of fire. There were two big changes to the human form which changed as we evolved from Australopithecus to Homo erectus and eventually Homo sapiens. Our brains got bigger and our guts got smaller. The process began over three million years ago as early ancestors started to eat meat.

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