When Did We First Start Controlling Fire?

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Researchers working with artifacts uncovered from a cave in Israel reveal that humans only began using fire habitually 350,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene. The findings, published in the Journal of Human Evolution this month, could also help explain certain aspects of our anatomical evolution over the last few million years.