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

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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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