Explorers wriggling through cramped, pitch-black caves in South Africa claim to have discovered evidence that the Homo naledi, a human relative with a brain only one-third the size of ours, used fire for light and cooking a few hundred thousand years ago.
South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic explorer Lee Berger described finding soot-covered walls, fragments of charcoal, burned antelope bones and rocks arranged as hearths in the Rising Star cave system, where nine years earlier the team uncovered the bones of a new member of the human family,Control of fire is considered a crucial milestone in human evolution, providing light to navigate dark places, enabling activity at night and leading to the cooking of food, and a...
Moreover, he argued that use of fire by a human relative with a brain little bigger than a large orange upsets the traditional story of our development. For years, experts portrayed evolution as “a ladder” that moved ever-upward toward species with larger brains and greater intelligence, while leaving smaller-brained species to perish.
Berger acknowledged that one of the major challenges facing him and his colleagues will be dating the materials they’ve found. So far, they’ve said the H. naledi bones date to between 230,000 and 330,000 year ago, though Berger stressed that those dates should not be viewed as the first or last appearances of the species.
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