A South African cave has yielded what researchers are calling the earliest evidence of fire control by human ancestors. In a paper published today in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team announces the discovery of burned plants and bones from 1 million years ago. Their findings suggest that Homo erectus—not Homo sapiens or Neanderthals—became the first hominin to master flames, possibly in order to cook their food.
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