Fire: The Spark That Ignited Human Evolution

Synopsis

The Association Between Our Ancestors And Fire, Somewhere Around Six To Four Million Years Ago, Had A Tremendous Impact On Human Evolution, Transforming Our Earliest Human Ancestor, A Being Communicating Without Speech But With Insight, Reason, Manual Dexterity, Highly Developed Social Organization, And The Capability Of Experimenting With This New Technology. As It First Associated With And Then Began To Tame Fire, This Extraordinary Being Began To Distance Itself From Its Primate Relatives, Taking A Path That Would Alter Its Environment, Physiology, And Self-image. Based On Her Extensive Research With Nonhuman Primates, Anthropologist Frances Burton Details The Stages Of The Conquest Of Fire And The Systems It Affected. Her Study Examines The Natural Occurrence Of Fire And Describes The Effects Light Has On Human Physiology. She Constructs Possible Variations Of Our Earliest Human Ancestor And Its Way Of Life, Utilizing Archaeological And Anthropological Evidence Of The Earliest Human-controlled Fires To Explore The Profound Physical And Biological Impacts Fire Had On Human Evolution.--publisher's Website. Burning Bright : The Turning Point In Human Evolution -- The Anatomy Of Fire : What Made The Ancestory Approach? -- Let There Be Light : Altering Hominin Physiology By Extending The Day -- Elementary, My Dear Orrorin : When The Ancestor First Used Fire -- Baby, Light My Fire : Apes And Old World Monkeys As Models For The Ancestor -- No Place Like Home : Evidence Of Fire And The First Use Of Hearths. Frances D. Burton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 191-221) And Index.