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To clarify, cave paintings are a more human invention than cooking with fire, but we wouldn’t have gotten to cave paintings without first using tools and fire.
by nis0s 1y ago
To clarify, cave paintings are a more human invention than cooking with fire, but we wouldn’t have gotten to cave paintings without first using tools and fire. So to the premise of the article in question, it’s not simply a matter of one of the other, or one over the other.
- fsckboy 1y agoif a chimp starts cooking with fire or instead starts cave painting, both are signs of progress but he's still a hunter gatherer. in the long run we can see the important contribution of many intellectual developments, but there may not be enough food/health surpluses for that to happen without eating cooked food. it's not useful to view evolution as "more important" moments, it's the totally of small changes in a dynamic hostile negative feedback environment.