[ExI] Why Pioneers Breed Like Rabbits

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 22:46:31 UTC 2011


2011/11/11 Stefano Vaj wrote:
> Before fire, everything north of tropical weather was a barren, inhabitable
> environment for humans.
>
>

I doubt if that is a correct interpretation of early human expansion.
Humans originated in Africa and spread outwards from there. In Europe
they encountered the Neanderthals who were already living in colder
climes. When the last ice age occurred they all moved back south, then
went north again when the ice retreated. Cooked food appears very
early in the fossil record. Fire was probably just one of the tools
carried along with early humans.


BillK



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