Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought(economist.com)
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Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/10/humans-were-lighting-fires-from-scratch-a-lot-earlier-than-previously-thought
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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’.
Earlier BBC interactive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220201