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Fire is estimated to have begun to be controlled by humans around 1.7 to 0.2 million years ago.
by ttsda 8y ago
Fire is estimated to have begun to be controlled by humans around 1.7 to 0.2 million years ago.
- toasterlovin 8y agoI'm curious who is estimating 0.2 million (200k) years. That is not very long ago. As a point of comparison, there are populations of humans who have been genetically isolated for that long (the Khoisan in southern Africa).