Humans Were Lighting Fires From Scratch a Lot Earlier Than Previously Thought
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qubex
29 days ago
Interesting, 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’.
guerbyAuthor
29 days ago
https://archive.is/lwn3W
ChrisArchitect
29 days ago
Earlier BBC interactive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220201
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