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Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought
- guerby 10mo agohttps://archive.is/lwn3W https://archive.is/lwn3W
- ChrisArchitect 10mo agoEarlier BBC interactive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220201
- qubex 10mo agoInteresting, but the element of survivorship bias is inevitable: any evidence that they were lighting fires later than our hypothesised first date passes unremarked, so only previous dates raise eyebrows and are ‘surfaced’.