Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought

[qubex]

Interesting, but the element of survivorship bias is inevitable: any evidence that they were lighting fires later than our hypothesised first date passes unremarked, so only previous dates raise eyebrows and are ‘surfaced’.

[ChrisArchitect]

Earlier BBC interactive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220201

[guerby]

https://archive.is/lwn3W