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The fire age

22 mins | Sep 15, 2019
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How humans made fire and fire made us human. Are we in the midst of a fire age? Stephen J. Pyne writing in Aeon magazine looks into the massive impact of fire on humans as a species and how our "monopoly" over the element has defined not only our present but also our future.

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