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Fire, weighed
Fire, domesticated
Fire, domesticated
Fire, domesticated
- +Cooked food: softer, safer, more calories per bite. The cooking hypothesis holds that this is what let the human gut shrink and the brain grow.
- +Light after dark, which is to say the evening as a thing people do together.
- +Predators keep their distance from a campfire, and so does the cold.
- +Hardened spear points, fired clay, smelted metal: every later technology starts with controlled heat.
- +Cleared land for grazing and planting, which is agriculture by other means.
- −Everything you own can now burn, including the house you built because you had fire.
- −Smoke in the lungs every evening for four hundred thousand years; indoor air pollution is still a leading cause of death where open fires cook.
- −Someone has to stay up and watch it, which is the first night shift.
- −Wildfire, once a lightning event, becomes a human habit.
- −The first thing worth stealing, and therefore the first thing worth guarding.
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