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

To: neolib who wrote (20580)	2/22/2008 4:48:23 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

re: "Trying to correlate human evolution with fire use does not show that in the least. Correlating human evolution with tool use would might do an ok job." Early humans like homo erectus used stone tools easily a million years ago (maybe two). If anything, you could claim that the use of stone tools led to the evolution of Homo Erectus. But we're not Homo Erectus. By your timeline, use of fire comes toward the tail end of Homo Erectus - soon to be followed by the development of Neanderthal and Modern Man (both fire users) re: "Human brain size was damn near current size (or larger) by the time of reliable indications that they used fire (300-400Kya)." No, your timeline for fire fits pretty well to the time period where brain size quickly increases, jaw bone become lighter, and modern man is believed to have evolved from Homo Erectus. Yes, from ashes of Homo Erectus emerges modern Man the "cooking" Man. :o)