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I'd argue they didn't have too much humanity, or at least what differentiates us from Chimpanzees.

• chrisco255 3y ago
  Most certainly they did by then. About 1.8 million years ago is when the hand axe (handheld stone axes used as weapons and for cutting) was first developed, and fire control was developed by 1.5 million years ago by earlier hominids.
• c420 3y ago
  Mastery of fire has entered the chat.
• psychphysic 3y ago
  The article suggests control of fire is what lead to recovery of the population. So indeed quite a different time.
• ahauxuueei 3y ago
  By that time we had mastered fire by probably a million years already.