The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary driver, a due of researchers at Tel Aviv University proposes that meat and fat preservation, and predator protection were more likely the initial motivations for fire use by Homo erectus during the Lower Paleolithic (1.9 to 0.78 million years ago). Miki Ben-Dor & Ran Barkai connect early fire...
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