Question

Explain the impact of the discovery of fire on the lives of the early man.

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Answer 1

Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and some other predators, are alert to opportunities to catch animals including invertebrates disturbed by such fires and similar benefits are likely to underlie the first human involvements with fires. Early hominins would undoubtedly have been aware of such fires, as are savanna chimpanzees in the present. Rather than as an event, the discovery of fire use may be seen as a set of processes happening over the long term. Eventually, fire became embedded in human behaviour, so that it is involved in almost all advanced technologies. Fire has also influenced human biology, assisting in providing the high-quality diet which has fuelled the increase in brain size through the Pleistocene. Direct evidence of early fire in archaeology remains rare, but from 1.5 Ma onward surprising numbers of sites preserve some evidence of burnt material. By the Middle Pleistocene, recognizable hearths demonstrate a social and economic focus on many sites. The evidence of archaeological sites has to be evaluated against postulates of biological models such as the ‘cooking hypothesis' or the ‘social brain’, and questions of social cooperation and the origins of language. Although much remains to be worked out, it is plain that fire control has had a major impact in the course of human evolution.
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Answer 2

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Fire made possible all subsequent advances. It has likely even influenced human evolution, allowing the human to evolve smaller teeth and jaws.

Fire made it possible for prehistoric man to keep predators at bay, harden his wood weapons, warm his nights, predigest his food. This leads to faster population growth, which encourages the development of settlements and domestication of plants and animals. Fire then permitted smelting of metals, which in turn results in advanced weaponry and sturdier tools, which then allows for conquest, trade, and higher food production. Civilization encourages specialization into trades, farming, soldiering, and bureaucracy, all made possible by the energy of fire.

Today most of our technology is powered ultimately by lighting something on fire and using its heat, literally or figuratively, from automobiles using tiny explosions of fuel to electronic devices that depend on the electrical energy from burning coal or natural gas. Even nuclear reactors use heat output that’s indistinguishable from that produced by a fire.

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