#622 | A Short History of Fire
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#622 | A Short History of Fire

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 16, 202624 min

A million years ago, in a cave in South Africa, our ancestors did something no other animal has ever done: they controlled fire. Fire cooked our food, shrank our guts, grew our brains, and gave us the deep sleep and fireside stories that made us human. This is the story of our species' oldest technology, and how the same flames that built the modern world may now threaten it. Wonderwerk Cave evidence of controlled fire by Homo erectus Early humans managed fire for warmth, light and safety Cooking incr...

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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to English Learning for Curious Minds by Leonardo English, the show where you can listen to fascinating stories and learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English. I'm Alistair Budge, and today we are going to be talking about the history of fire. We humans are the only animal on earth

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that has truly mastered fire, that has learned to keep it, make it, cook with it and build entire civilizations around it. And today we are going to trace that story, how fire changed our bodies, our minds, the way we interact with one another and made the modern world possible. But before we get right into today's episode, I want to remind you that you can become a member

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