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Ancient human relative used fire, surprising discoveries suggest<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Story by Mark Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ancient human relative used fire, surprising discoveries suggest \u00a9\u00a0Denis Farrell\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Explorers wriggling through cramped, pitch-black caves in South Africa claim to have discovered evidence that 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. The unpublished findings \u2014 which add new wrinkles to the story of human evolution \u2014 have been met with both excitement and skepticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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, Homo naledi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 subsequent increase in body mass. When exactly the breakthrough occurred, however, has been one of the most contested questions in all of paleoanthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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