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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (20545)	2/20/2008 9:44:57 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

re: "Would you not think the use of skins or clothing was equally important for warmth? I don't think people walked around caring a fire bottle or something to stay warm" Sorry, from what I found, the use of fire came long before clothing, before language, before agriculture, before even the current human species (fire was used by neanderthals and homo erectus). It is even argued (by real scientists, in real peer reviewed journals), that it's cooked food that enabled early man being able to evolve (smaller teeth and larger brains) into modern man. In short, we are not like other primates or other hominids, because the ancient ancestors of humans learned to use fire - and and the use of fire (the burning of hydrocarbons) changed them into Man. :o)