New York Times Laments Start Of Civilization

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The discovery of fire was one of the seminal events in the development of human civilization.

The New York Times laments this discovery because Evul Cigarettes.

The sooner they go bankrupt, the better.

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The discovery of fire was one of the seminal events in the development of human civilization.

The New York Times laments this discovery because Evul Cigarettes.

The sooner they go bankrupt, the better.

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Ace of Spades HQ
Imbecile!!!

The problem with 'Memes' and the imbeciles that post them, is that the memes are usually just symbolic idiocies, made to make bullshit look like fact. It is how dumb people come to believe falsehoods because they've seen something in a gif/jpeg/image

from the original article the imbecilic meme came from. talk about playing people for idiots
When early humans discovered how to build fires, life became much easier in many regards. They huddled around fire for warmth, light and protection. They used it to cook, which afforded them more calories than eating raw foods that were hard to chew and digest. They could socialize into the night, which possibly gave rise to storytelling and other cultural traditions.

But there were downsides, too.

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In other words, how did the harmful effects of fire shape our evolution?

It’s a question that’s just starting to attract more attention. “I would say it’s mostly barroom talk at the moment,” said Richard Wrangham, a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University and the author of “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.” His work suggested that cooking led to advantageous changes in human biology, such as larger brains.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/science/fire-smoke-evolution-tuberculosis.html?_r=0
 
SCIENCE
Smoke, Fire and Human Evolution
Trilobites

By STEPH YIN AUG. 5, 2016
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A cave painting in Spain, from about 15,000 years ago, depicts the gathering of honey from a beehive. Smoke from a burning brand was used to make the bees docile.CreditThierry Berrod/Mona Lisa Production/Science Source
 
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PASADENA (CN) - A conservative political activist does not have a federal case against the Los Angeles county prosecutor who called her an illiterate liar on his blog, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday.

Nadia Naffe says the sordid dispute stems from having helped fellow activist James O'Keefe plant a bug in the office of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, and the OneUnited offices where the congresswoman's husband worked.

O'Keefe was becoming something of a household name in conservative circles at the time after releasing footage of his purported undercover investigation into ACORN, short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Naffe said her relationship with O'Keefe soured in late 2011 when the man allegedly drugged her in an attempt to sexually assault her in a renovated New Jersey barn.

(Frey made his statements about Naffe - such as calling her "a liar, illiterate, callous, self-absorbed, despicable, a smear artist, dishonest, and absurd" - for "purely personal reasons")
 
Ace links to the actual article, which obviously eludes the dim bulbs of USMB.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/s...s.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Here is a direct quote:

Many experts believe tuberculosis arose at least 70,000 years ago. By then, humans were most certainly controlling fire. (Estimates of when human ancestors started regularly using fire vary greatly, but the consensus is that it was at least 400,000 years ago.)

“We realized that the discovery of controlled fire must have caused a significant shift in the way humans were interacting with each other and with the environment,” factors known to drive the emergence of infectious diseases, Dr. Chisholm said.

She and Dr. Tanaka believe that fire might have helped spread other airborne diseases, not just tuberculosis. “Fire, as a technological advantage, has been a double-edged sword,” Dr. Tanaka said....



It's pretty telling that after trashing fossil fuels, red meat, air conditioning, modern health care and the other things that have made modern Americans some of the most healthy and long-lived people in history, that the Progs are going back to rethink the various basics of mere survival that spurred human development in the first place.
 

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