The Discovery of Fire (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

Education, History

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When we think of what made human beings into human beings, one of the first things which come up is the discovery of fire. The control and use of fire is one of the earliest things which our ancestors did, which separated us from other apes and began us on the path to becoming modern podcast-listening humans. Learn more about how humans came to use fire on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Expedition Unknown Find out the truth behind popular, bizarre legends. Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe. With direct audio from the hit TV show, you’ll hear Gates explore stories like the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific and the location of Captain Morgan's treasure in Panama. These authentic, roughshod journeys help Gates separate fact from fiction and learn the truth behind these compelling stories. InsideTracker provides a personal health analysis and data-driven wellness guide to help you add years to your life—and life to your years. Choose a plan that best fits your needs to get your comprehensive biomarker analysis, customized Action Plan, and customer-exclusive healthspan resources. For a limited time, Everything Everywhere Daily listeners can get 20% off InsideTracker’s new Ultimate Plan. Visit InsideTracker.com/eed. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Listen on Podurama: https://podurama.com Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone this is Gary and I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be taking a brief summer break this week
0:05.2	So I've lined up some episodes from the archives that statistically I know most of you haven't listened to and if you have heard it
0:11.1	It'll be a good refresher.
0:13.0	I'll be back again with new episodes on July 23rd.
0:16.0	When we think of what made human beings into human beings, one of the first things we come up with
0:24.6	is the discovery of fire.
0:26.6	The control of news of fire is one of the earliest things which our ancestors did, which
0:30.2	separated us from other apes, and began us on the path to becoming modern
0:34.0	podcast listening human beings. Learn more about how humans came to use fire on this
0:38.8	episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. everywhere daily. Before we start there are a few things that need to be clarified.
1:00.0	First is that humans didn't discover fire any more than we discovered rocks and trees.
1:05.5	Fire was around before humans, so the discovery of fire would probably just have been
1:09.6	whoever we defined to be the first human being. There was no first caveman who had a
1:14.6	Eureka moment when fire was discovered. What we are really interested in are
1:19.6	questions about when people began to use fire, harness fire, and eventually create fire.
1:25.0	Second is that when we go back this far in time, the evidence becomes very sketchy.
1:30.0	Organic objects don't tend to preserve very well, and the odds that any living thing should be preserved as a fossil is very very rare.
1:38.0	Much of what we know is based on creating a narrative that fits the available facts and the facts are changing all the time as we make new discoveries.
1:47.0	Third, pinning down exactly when we became human isn't easy.
1:51.0	For the purposes of this episode, I'm going to use human to refer to
1:55.2	both modern Homo sapiens and all related hominin species which may or may not have been
2:00.5	our ancestors. So Homo habilulus, Homo Rectus, and Homo Heidelbergentis will all be considered
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