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Cenozoic

Study discovers humans have been using fire for perhaps 1 million years

Environment

Humans have used fire for hundreds of thousands of years — and used it in myriad ways. But a new study out this week, based on research in South Africa, shows that humans — or more precisely, their ancestors — may have been using fire as much as a million years ago.

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Arts, Culture & Media

Evidence of Early Use of Fire Found in South Africa Cave

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Giant Sloth Bones

The World

Cooking Up A New Theory Of Human Evolution

Arts, Culture & Media

Richard Wrangham, professor at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, He joins The Takeaway with his take on human evolution — and its relation to cooking.

The World

Geo answer

Arts, Culture & Media

For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for the Afar Rift in northeastern Ethiopia. That’s where scientists found a 4.4 million-year-old hominid skeleton. Anchor Werman speaks with Tim White and Owen Lovejoy about their findings.