How fire and lava may have made us who we are | Michael Medler | TEDxWWU

[@KryssLaBryn]

If we've been having these interactions with fire for one to two million years, I suppose that would certainly explain why we're so naturally drawn to fires, and find the presence of open flame so comforting, eh? Why, when other animals generally flee, we draw closer to our campfires for safety and security when we're frightened in the dark of the woods. And if our relationship with it is that old, it may also help to explain why it feels so much like a living creature to us? And probably also why kids find it so fascinating, and so very much want to play with it and feed things into it to see if it'll burn. It really does seem to be instinctual at this point for us!

[@williamparker1644]

Been looking for this connection ever since I learned to make fire with a hand drill. Had to be a lava flow where apes first learned to manage fire. Lightning fires are too random. Friction fire is too technical. I just didn't know if lava flows would have been available in Africa. Apparently they were. I think he's nailed it.

[@glowdog6321]

Hey Bill. Neat vid. thanks for recommendation.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

I am not aware of any claim that apes ever learned to manage fire, and the speaker in this video states quite directly (around 13:36 and shortly thereafter) that humans are the only species that manages fire.

[@xxxx-iu4kd]

@@andrewvelonis5940 I think he’s talking about extant species lolll

[@xxxx-iu4kd]

@@andrewvelonis5940 also humans are apes, so technically apes do create and manage fire

[@markward3981]

@@xxxx-iu4kd That is just an arbitrary definition.

[@raddriver9537]

I've long thought that modern humans evolved with fire, but didn't know about the lava- thank you!!

[@paolazo-l4790]

How interesting! and how it all makes sense. So, we are humans thanks to lava. How interesting to imagine those very primitive humans clans living near lava lakes. Imagining how they organized themselves is fascinating. Thank you Dr Medler

[@tragabushe812]

well they were mostly australopithecus. humans came later

[@j.oaklley8965]

Jesus made the human race!!!!

[@j.oaklley8965]

We are p eople. and God is our creator.

[@manoj4373]

@@j.oaklley8965 well, your God says moon is a light and earth is created before the sun. Perhaps the creator doesn't even know about his creation🤨

[@warriorandchildofgod2425]

We were created by God. Smh idiots

[@ChristopherHartbooks]

Wonderfully informative video. Answers a lot of profound questions in just a few minutes.

[@nelsonx5326]

And we are fascinated by fire. I love a nice camp fire.

[@aydnofastro-action1788]

The lecture on Cooking Ape is a must. And this was a great addition. I have been wondering about these exact questions since watching it. Excellent work! The carnivore diet community needs to sit up and listen. This is a missing piece of the puzzle.

[@prettyprudent5779]

Thank you, Science, for telling us What we REALLY are - and Where we actually came from.

[@Lucius_murrius]

😂😂😂

[@advaittalekar7310]

The rise of fire nation

[@drr6357]

Avatar Wan was a firebender first before anything else. The writers did this on purpose 🙂

[@qh777]

I knew I was going to find a comment like this here.

[@alanroberts7916]

@@qh777 great movie I watch it often. I'm old. My memory is bad and i keep forgetting how it ends.

[@WildAlchemicalSpirit]

I'm an anthropology student and, through my own studies and research, I have reached very similar views and considerations. That's how and why I even found this video. I could spend my life on just this topic alone. Thank you. 🔥🌋

[@jerrywiese]

Extremely interesting how the human usage of fire might have developed . It obviously must have started with discoveries of naturally cooked edible flora and fauna . The discovery of actual procedures for producing fire would have been a critical event in the advancement of the human species . It must have been some sort of accidental discovery . This video presentation inspired me to contemplate just how essential combustion is to current human survival .

[@brianc4594]

But our domesticated cats and dogs were also eating cooked foods. Why did they not have that doubling of brain growth too?

[@YagamiKou]

@@brianc4594 ur missing the entirety of his hypothesis his hypothesis is ment to be a single piece to a hundred piece puzzle of how we got more intelligent so picking it out on its own like that is kind of rediculous u want another piece? having thumbs, its incredibly hard to invent or use technology without thumbs so something similar may actually be needed for technological intelligence but would giving cats thumbs make them smarter? probably not... because it is not enough, just to have, what we have u have to utilise it too, use it or lose it, and idk if cats would actually use thumbs u cant pick a piece in isolation because every piece is critical

[@easypeasy9598]

@@YagamiKou but cats and dogs specially dogs couldnt survive out there with raw food killing other animals?

[@YagamiKou]

@@easypeasy9598they might, but weather they can or cant it has no baring on the intelligence of domestic animals since they have no appendages to develop tools during free time it cant help them cultivate technological intelligence most of thier intelligence will mirror what we want of them learn to have an emotional loveable side learn to hunt and know the meaning of words their intelligence is an extension of our demands dogs did have radical brain shifts due to us but it probably wont give them our technologic intelligence it has very much given them emotional intelligence but its hard to say where this change will end we have only had dogs for some 35k years humans with fire has been a *tad* longer then that so pets may come further, but it wont be the foods fault it will be due to changes in our own needs and wants we have a rather intense control over pet evolution

[@oldkarate]

Might be interesting to also consider the first cooked foods. My hypothesis is that it was grasshoppers. Put them on the end of a stick to cook, they get charred and then eaten like popcorn. My suggestion for this is simplicity. Nothing has to be trapped cleaned or prepared. Once this becomes established, more complex cooking can be developed.

[@michaelportaloo1981]

Shame we didn't evolve better removal of smoke particles from the lungs.

[@mhk5272]

We are now

[@Durin_Son]

I lava this hypothesis

[@opnwndo]

Here is the answer, we became compassionate to others and helped the weak survive. They in turn had time to invent things to make their life easier or maintain things , like fire. They had more time to convey their knowledge to the young. Today we coddle the weak of mind and body.

[@rstevewarmorycom]

Nerds weak of body invented everything you use. Mind is not weak. Yours is.

[@gregsmith5134]

rstevewarmorycom according to scientists there is no such thing as the mind. Only the material brain. Which doesn’t make sense to me personally. Because those same scientists say there is no such thing as free will. We can’t make choices we just react base on neurons firing in our brain.

[@salemsaberhagan]

​@@gregsmith5134 Here's the thing tho. An allegedly non-sentient sessile being like a fungus has millions of thread-like appendages that literally look like neurons, have nuclei that float around anywhere, also similar to neurons which can have nuclei at any point in the "thread" body but only cannot move at will. And these nuclei surround materials that the fungus cannot digest & examine it & test throwing various enzymes at it until they finally figure out how to dissolve it. Then they send out a message to every other cell saying "WE CAN EAT IT IF WE USE THIS CHEMICAL" as they disperse & resume their patrols of the entire body network. This is a life form that doesn't even move. And yet, it acts in an almost scientific manner. Almost as if it thinks. It's not very hard to see that many more of such cells can clump together & interconnect to the point that they achieve complex self-awareness i.e. consciousness.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

This talk was HOT ♨️

[@howardgstrecke]

Pyro sapien?

[@ianharvey8025]

Interesting hypothesis

[@smirza860]

Perhaps the food they cooked was barbecue style as utensils were above the clouds too high to reach. Another aspect to cooking could be living near natural boiled fresh water springs which are many around the world.

[@Moocow9991703]

Yep I think your probably right 👍

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Now I want to boil some noodles... I suppose I should know not to read the comments on an empty stomach. :/

[@jwrielly]

.n

[@loldidyoureally3246]

Hes talking about european change.... They were the last to evolve to modern humans

[@BBQ1953]

Wow! Thanks for the epiphany, Dr. Medler. It makes absolute sense that our ancestors would have evolved fire management skills, following a general pattern very similar to what you propose.

[@SorenPenrose]

Why is it impossible for me to read this in a way that isn't sarcastic?

[@BBQ1953]

Christopher Parks - I’m an old guy, hopefully continuing to learn as I go along. My MBA did little to prepare me for the kind of archeological delving to which Dr. Medler and his colleagues have devoted their time. I wouldn’t waste his time with sarcasm. I learned several fire making methods in military survival schools when I was a young man. I’d often wondered how humans came to view fire as a tool and not a demon. His lecture was insightful.

[@hwh1946]

I always thought "Eating Fire" made a good case and when you think about nutrients values delivered in food it makes sense.

[@rstevewarmorycom]

FIre's great. We undoubtedly figured it out from cooking. But have you ever cooked a egg on a car hood? Yes, messes up the paint, but it is easy to do. Think now about dark flat rocks in the HOT African sun. Flat piece of wood and sharp flakes of rock and you can slice meat into thin strips and cook it on the flat hot rock!! You wind up with a softened jerky in a few minutes to a half hour. We did NOT NEED FIRE to cook meat!!! Cooking is 160F, not as hot as a flame at 450F, fire wasn't needed!! And we probably mixed it with spices! WE lived on JERKY till we figured out how to make fire! I don't know why nobody has thought of that yet!!

[@tragabushe812]

3 my ago the temperature was colder, due to a climate change. where they were, the only time they could cook on rocks could be summer, perhaps.

[@ReefHeater]

Good point but like previous reply says, it likely would work only in the summer

[@donkrapf]

In Japan, on Mount Hakone, they boil eggs in the hot springs which remain from the volcanic activity.

[@AtlantisChannel]

Bro that's genius.

[@dna1238]

Well presented ❤️ great postulation by Mr. Wrangham, makes a heck of alot of sense that we are " fire animals". 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎 Much respect to pioneering thinkers 💪💯, Darwin et al 🥇✨👑☄️✔️🤓

[@JanetWilliams01]

Wow -- great theory. This one has the "ring of truth." Only time will tell, though, and I suppose more research. Good luck with it!

[@drg8687]

It's a hypothesis, not a theory.

[@voiceoftruth2646]

No, it has the ''ring of'' BS!!!

[@drg8687]

@@voiceoftruth2646 yes, you do

[@voiceoftruth2646]

@@drg8687 Wow...such a refutation🤣🤣🤣🤣. Keep your EVILution religion.

[@drg8687]

@@voiceoftruth2646 you are a load that really should have been swallowed.

[@johnrobinson4445]

Excellent extension of Wrangham's theory. Brilliant in its details.

[@YagamiKou]

@@eplurbispablum as far as i saw he didnt mean anything about the bipedalism general walking developed some 4 million years ago, with the possibility there were ansestors walking 7 million years ago but he is talking about fire, at most, 2 million years ago so i dont think he means for them to be related just that bipedalism makes fires management possible the general idea seems solid enough I look forward to further research

[@jeholloway2]

Very interesting speech. Thank you.

[@jackhill2765]

What a brilliant idea!!!

[@j.oaklley8965]

God made the human race!!!

[@michellelester243]

We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning!

[@rogerbird5665]

Makes sense to me.

[@thetawaves48]

Not one mention of Prometheus?

[@googolnews2781]

What is that?

[@bircruz555]

Science flourished long after the days of allegory, and it does not care for it.

[@callingallcovens2759]

@@bircruz555 or myth new before science did. You can spin it either way but there is a striking parallel either way.

[@RayVision3D]

This might also be the reason so many civilizations arose near volcanoes, even though they potentially more dangerous, instead of nearby lakes and rivers.

[@heroknaderi]

Very interesting I enjoyed it and appreciate it 😎👍

[@sergiocerina7876]

The fire species😮 mindblown

[@gregoryperkins2180]

very compelling. especially using the maps to show where early hominids were found.

[@Aluminata]

The curious thing about meat is when it is treated with heat it undergoes some truly amazing chemical changes, resulting in a recombination of denatured proteins with sugars, to provide some 600 components of aromas and delicious tastes; profoundly appealing to the human palate and olfactory senses. It is almost as if meat was made to be cooked.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Or more likely that we have been eating cooked meat for so long we have evolved to enjoy it.

[@JanetWilliams01]

Eloquently stated, Ralph. Thanks.

[@davemccullagh4297]

Uncooked meat is healthier if it's not diseased

[@gerardvila4685]

@@davemccullagh4297 That's a big "if". From my recollection (I forgot the source, sorry), most animals in the wild are crawling with internal and external parasites.

[@davemccullagh4297]

@@gerardvila4685 doesn't change what I said, that's why I said if

[@kaielvin]

I think this deserves to be featured on the TED channel.

[@stendak]

Excellent

[@spikelean2971]

you dont need verbal language to communicate a process, if you are of an intelligent species. for example, octopuses cannot speak, but learn from one another. so, i am certainly convinced that australopithecus, even, would be able to pass the knowledge of fire-starting to their children through watching and learning.

[@YagamiKou]

this is true, typically language develops as a counter measure to being hunted social species will use warning sounds, to tell others predators are coming that can evolve into different sounds for different dangers that changes into social sounds i.e new group of primates coming over finally through to general language that being he case, they probably had basic language before fire so teaching was likley a mix of visual and auditory ques

[@71kaye]

algorithm recommended this after I watched one about aquatic ape/ mermaid notions. why am I not surprised...

[@benstevinson764]

Quest For Fire 🔥

[@shanakaliyanage6875]

Pretty interesting theory!!!

[@wkboonec]

Lava flows, of course! Like those in Hawaii, reaching the ocean.

[@oobrocks]

W out question domestican of fire is THE invention

[@sageohio1864]

Makes total sense

[@justing1810]

I've always had a fascination with making camp fires. I guess this must be why.

[@BlancoDevil]

So, playing "The Floor is Hot Lava" is possibly a racial memory?

[@kenjichapman6447]

@rent a shill lol

[@Tinytruthful999]

Someone can help please . No hate 😅 I don't get how embracing the idea of us being the fire animal would help with the environmental issues ( climat) . The end of the speech confuse me a bit and I am wondering what he meant ?

[@drg8687]

I think what he was saying was, evolution has made fire apart of our nature and so we must keep that in mind when thinking about the issues around the denial of climate change. Peoele get defensive when they feel they feel they are being attacked.

[@moniquevallejogrisales3694]

Also that we have to embrace the idea that we are the animal specie in charge of fire on this planet, therefore we have to use those thousands of years of experience and do something about the climate change. Will we have time ?

[@andreisabe]

After all we all decent from Tygarien. Fire and blood, that's us.

[@kawktf9032]

Targaryan

[@21mozzie]

There are instances of cultures that could not make fire, and in these cultures, they just kept permanent fires.

[@rogerbird5665]

I am and have been thriving on a raw meat and egg diet for years. I do have to cook fish as the skin is often unchewable for me.

[@yehoshuadalven]

So it wasn't Prometheus after all?

[@KryssLaBryn]

Well, that still may have been his name... ;)

[@bobbyeckert4901]

It seems we had fire long before we had symbol use.

[@elijahrock8391]

Interesting watching this and then seeing the birds using fires in AUS to flush out prey

[@KryssLaBryn]

Right? Here's another species that has learned to manipulate fire to make catching food easier, and which therefore might also be consuming cooked meat more regularly. And they've been doing it for several thousand years, according to the Aboriginals! I would be extremely interested in how the Australian firehawks' intelligence may be growing or otherwise changing due to this behaviour!

[@johnvonshepard9373]

So that's why i love to start fire.

[@robchalmers6278]

You Hot felon your on fire ...PS joking

[@brianc4594]

But domestic cats and dogs have been eating cooked food for as long as man has been eating cooked food. Have their brains accelerated in growth? And that should mean they are way more advanced than their wild cousins such as the wolf or puma.

[@0VistaDelMar0]

saving natural embers

[@blackbuddha8167]

I wonder when did we start and why did we start cooking our food?

[@krispalermo8133]

During the dry seasons lightning storms roll over the grass lands and brush fires get started which spread into forest fires and there goes the village. Depending on how fast the wind is blowing and how high the flames are from the dry grass. You could climb high enough in a tree or out run the flames. Monkeys, apes, and humans want to get UP out of the flames. And we are Taught to " Drop and Roll." Which is funny cause when any animal is in Pain it wants to drop and roll on the ground. Humans do to when they have been beaten or whipped . The African Jackal other other hand being the craziest Dog there is, will dig a deep den or Run throw the Wall of Fire. They are roll on the ground fighters after all. After the fire passes, they eat what ever has been flash fire cooked. Modern human have been around for around 40, 000 years, Native Australians are about 60,000 years old. The Oldest Arrows found in Africa about 78,000 years old. The arrow heads were found in old camp sites and a few skeletons hips with the bone grown over them. The Oldest "camper's stone oven" made from flat stacked river stone, is about 83,000 years old. A lot of carbon of burn grease was glassed to the stone, so they knew how to make a hot fire. Let see, a good chunk of meat, onions, and yams, with some rock salt .

[@krispalermo8133]

As for why we started cooking our food. Meat cooked rare done in a natural grass fire. You ever ate raw fish ? Or eggs ? Cooked food tastes good !

[@gn3441]

Evolution can happen fast but how long a stable lava source can last?

[@cuscof2]

Muana Loa on Hawaii has been erupting for 700,000 years at least.

[@seanarmstrong2196]

Volcanic activity was greater two million years ago so it was very possible. Just look at the lava flows of Hawaii.

[@brontehauptmann4217]

Evolution is a fraud

[@michaeldrew3292]

8:25 The mind foresees into the future as lord and master of us and we must have had intuition back millennia ago for us to make fire etc. Eating cooked food allowed our brains to double in size and us to evolve to this point because our mental faculties guided us forward naturally toward fire and it's use

[@brontehauptmann4217]

what a crock

[@michaeldrew3292]

@@brontehauptmann4217 lol

[@thetawaves48]

There has always been wildfires and vulcanism. Why are we the only species that use it?

[@tjpprojects7192]

Were not the only ones, Lava Crickets still use it to this day.

[@devonbrockhaus6554]

You heard it here first, we're Fire Benders! ;-D

[@robchalmers6278]

Hey Darl, put another shrimp on the lava.

[@johnsinth8261]

makes sense

[@sundarapandian18]

Isn’t fire 🔥 was discovered by rubbing two stone which created sparks ?

[@powelladventures4069]

The answer to the puzzle: We started eating raw animal foods like fish, shellfish, mullosks and crustaceans etc first which started the intellectual growth. Seafood and shore food is rich in vitamins D, calcium, protein, magnesium, iodine, potasium and much more. Magnesium and iodine has been said to cause anomalies. This seems like common sense ... apes came down from trees and moved towards the sea. Cooking meats had to be more recent then eating healthy raw proteins. The lava theory is a bit more far fetched than the eating shellfish idea.

[@krispalermo8133]

@ andrew powell , The nation of Ethiopia is the Garden of Eden, the Center of Creation on Earth. "Lucy" the first Eve, so they claim was found there. What made her special ? Well, her spine was attached to the base of her skull instead of the back like a monkey or an ape. Would the make holding your head above water easier ? Debatable. Ethiopia is On the coast line where all the right kinds of food are for brain develop and there is a form of ginko that grows in the area. The country's high lands and mountain frost over each night during Our current summer months, Ice and Snow can be found all year long in the shade crevices. And it does snow there during winter months. Hang out in the mountains in the summer months to get away from the heat with beery fruit juice snow cones, then go eat sea food in the winter. You can follow all the rivers that come down from that area into forest jungles, grasslands , into rocky sandy deserts. One group can move down river for 20 or 100 years having 6 or 8 generations passing before a group returns to the area. Any body adaptations will be passed back into the starting group. You have to have a seven generations worth of lineage to establish a new set of traits before you can have a "new dog breed." There is a show on youtube about "Fresh Water FISH" on a river that flows north from the Congo in the Sahara with it's Own tribe of people as different as Arctic Russians are from South Africans. Around 8,000 years ago there was a drought in Africa that dried up nearly 3/4th of the river creating Two Breeds of Fish ! it is estimated the drought lend to famine and disease that killed off nearly 80% of the continent . Now watch a few shows on the Root Language Trees, they are Very Close to each other.

[@powelladventures4069]

@@krispalermo8133 fantastic assortment of information. What are you implying?

[@krispalermo8133]

This is what I am Implying. There is no One Missing Link in humans development. It was a huge group effort from many different proto tribes moving back and fort in a given area passing their genes along. Also these area Do Not leave Fossils. I have seen In the American Mid West how fast blow flies magots can tear down a dead dog in a few days time. In Africa, everything Eats everything... Ok I am ranting. I am 42 years old. and had to deal with one type of book thumpper or another. Religious or other wise, and no one wants to be wrong. The mind set is the same just change the pronoun. My point being, there is no One Single Missing Link. Your opening statement cover the diet for brain growth. My ranting just cover the location where it was started, for the Out of Africa "theory." I grew up on Star Trek, Star Wars, Roll Playing Games, reading comics and history on breeding animals. My family is know for ranting. I am not afraid that I am an animal. Because I am not a rock or a vegetable Is it that I am implying that nearly every 200 years a plague goes through and kills off close to 40% to 60% of a given land mass population ? Or every few thousand years a mass global drought kills close to 80% of the world's population ? The Maya Empire in Mexico was brought down by drought. It is late and I hope you have a good weekend.

[@powelladventures4069]

@@krispalermo8133Your points are understood. I agree with most of that. My comment was with specific reference to the paradox presented in the video. The particular portion about advanced brain development before cooked meat or after. Since preparing and cooking meat implies some advanced cognitive ability but it was allegedly cooked meat that allowed for advanced cognitive functioning. The simple answer is shore foods came first. OFT - optimal foraging theory makes the most sense when examining food and diet. Species have primary diets and as foods change in availability diet naturally changes as well. This change is in order of preference and is shown in many species. Which food is easiest to come by takes precedence when survival is the goal. Water = life in many ways. We are still dominantly a coastal dwelling species, and a myriad of evidence can show this has been the same for a very long time. Another aspect to consider is that Ethiopia was a lush rainforest as recently as 10k years ago, and water ways, rivers, and lakes change over relatively short periods of time.

[@pepper419]

If it's one thing I really hate about TED it's the introdutrodutions. They're always too loud.

[@peterbienasz8704]

Who sees the half of a face staring back in the photo of the guy touching the lava front at 11:30.

[@moniquevallejogrisales3694]

Like a big one right?

[@scottythetrex5197]

But how would the use of fire have created a selective pressure that created the changes in our bodies? Isn't it more likely being thin and less muscular made us better runners and hunters, and the use of fire (later) provided more calories for the changes in the head and brain? Or is it that fire made it possible for us to hunt less often, and interact more in a way that created a selection pressure for greater intelligence?

[@FrancomBros]

Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

[@marcob9124]

Oh myyyy... People are incredible superstitious!!

[@innninnn4471]

I'm sorry but the chicken and the egg even after this entertaining TedTalk remain in the same relations as before. He explains how ancestors got to the fire but not at all how they come about to make it themselves when the fire went out.

[@joey1160]

Lava, over time, equals cooked food directing the trajectory of our evolution, resulting in bigger brains. Bigger brains lead to unique self-awareness, experimentation with friction perhaps. Wood burns, I'm sure they noted. (They probably sustained fires with fuel like this.) Rub two wood things together, they get hot. Maybe they put two and two together. But to be honest with you, many of our technological breakthroughs (even in modern times, like insulin, the periodic table of elements, and sewing needle, for example) have come from dreams or psychedelic experiences. Indigenous cultures today tell us their immense pharmacopia of baffling plant knowledge came from beings like plants in a trance state with ayahuasca. I wouldn't be surprised if the fire mystery is never fully answered, but equally unsurprised if these influences were present in its founding.

[@lakenvelder0pandora]

So basically we're all the Fire Nation Because we're attacking each other :P

[@devonbrockhaus6554]

Ack, you beat me to it! :D

[@perseoeridano4182]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@FRANCISCOANZALDO1978]

The egg evolved into chicken 🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

[@lordbyron4163]

Im going to throw a spanner in the works to this theory - Before you can cook it.... you have to catch it!!! what are they cooking? animals run from fire, so what other animals are they catching to cook? I'm assuming we're talking about meat here? we're not talking vegetable lasagna now are we!!!

[@cmmndrblu]

Actually there are plenty of starchy plants which are broken down faster when cooked

[@cuscof2]

In the wake of any forest fire or grass fire are the remains of plenty of critters who were not able to get out of the way. Along the border of a lava flow there will be continual flare-ups of fires.

[@thetawaves48]

I thought of this years ago.

[@rogerbird5665]

Fire increases the access to meat.

[@28105wsking]

While they were chipping flint for making knives and weapons, they struck a spark into the surrounding grass and voila! fire!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

That's a very good theory for how they might have begun understanding how to make fire themselves. Although I agree with the speaker that lava flow is the most likely way humans evolved into a species that would even think to consider your theory. Good job though, it's actually a theory I hadn't read until just now. ^-^

[@krispalermo8133]

And little children just love to throw rocks into other rocks just for the noise it makes. "Ok, this is a good place to eat some fruit and this rocky area can keep us up from being eaten. The dry grass will make good comfortable bed. Now how are you doing ?" "Will you get the children to stop throwing rocks, I am trying to get some sleep." " Let the children keep throwing rocks, you slept throw more noise than what they are making,.Besides that noise keeps the cats away, they know we have rocks and they do not like being hit by rocks, so rest easy." Few hours later.. " How they heck did this place catch fire ? I did not hear any thunder or lightning !" " Well, I Did Tell You to get the children to stop throwing rocks ! " "Why does this ALWAYS has to be about Me and the Children ?"

[@brontehauptmann4217]

no

[@simonsimon2888]

Chimpanzee and ape have a shorter thumb. Hence, they unable to hold a match stick to light a fire as this song, ''Come on, baby light my fire!''

[@mgentile7207]

Great video, very thought provoking. Wouldn't there be more evidence of trauma and failed attempts? Perhaps clusters of groups of bones burnt. Since fire was the internet back in the day...

[@shaccooper]

Cool story bro. I love science fiction as much as everyone else in the comment section.

[@Daniel-yo5es]

obviously.. you are a bible thumper.

[@gregsmith5134]

Daniel liking science fiction makes one a Bible thumper ? How so ? Plus on a side note there is more evidence for the Bible of the Christian religion then what this guy has.

[@SorenPenrose]

@@gregsmith5134 denying evolution is a trait exclusive to religious zealots. There is no scientific reason to reject evolution.

[@JavierBonillaC]

Super interesting but some people have to research their jokes a lot more....

[@georgehagstrom1461]

Incapatibility of fur and fire. Walking bi-pedle to carry firewood.

[@martymcmannis8662]

Still missing link? No, not even close

[@SuperTreemendus]

You're missing it because you're not looking.

[@ledzep2]

Raw food and pregnancy theory ....maybe you were not supposed to live in california

[@davidgeorgemarksergeant4373]

Intriguing

[@celinak5062]

Fire magicians

[@changamanga100]

A critical point of view, if you believe in Evolution ???

[@medoujda3937]

so in a way ...... all humains are from flintstones familly

[@tobberfutooagain2628]

And hence, 5 Guys Burgers and Fries. Pinnacle of human evolution…

[@engineerwrd5919]

World was made only 6000 years ago.

[@orsonkart9886]

Who MADE the lava that MADE us who we are?

[@somethingjackal7021]

Who made what made the lava that made what we are?

[@abdullahboyer4863]

Can you give a definition of(homoarecta) that showed in Africa? What does that have to do with fire? So then with an explanation Africa is the beginning of the land that got created? According to the nation of islaam Africans are the first creation on earth! When was clothes created? I think that was a pop shot at Africans!

[@nazneentonse6768]

I knew it! This is why it's so hard to quit smoking .. somewhere in my genes is the memory that I must keep the ember glowing in order to survive, and the recollection of those early barbecues evokes an ancient joy that is re-experienced every time I light a cigarette! Yes! (Well, maybe not .. but I'm going with this excuse from now on)

[@moniquevallejogrisales3694]

Lol no!

[@handkeez]

👌🏿

[@aku7598]

Cats will be like humans eons from today since they are now fed by cooked food prepared by humans.

[@優さん-n7m]

*may*

[@gplus46]

The fire animal who needs to use a match

[@sirsir9665]

What if God(s) giving Humans souls was the discovery and utilization of fire? Not only is it believed to help evolve us, thus turning us from animals to having Human precision or a "spirit ". The human spirit is often depicted as a burning fire or passion. Maybe the Forbidden fruit wasn't an apple but a fire on a branch, thus losing our caveman stupidity our "innocence " for sin or knowledge that we developed from having fire.

[@liamsung99999]

It wasnt the cooked food that made us human. It was the burnt weed

[@DD-pz3kf]

Burnt weed led to the intense hunger . 😆