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To: Pharmboy
An archaic human walked fur-free about 1.2 million years ago, carrying fire on the savanna

Can someone help me here? Do we have some sort of fossil evidence that hominids were fur-free 1.2M years ago? Or is that just baseless supposition? And use of fire at that time -- do we know that?

8 posted on 08/19/2003 5:49:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (France delenda est)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The hairlessness is a guess; fire use, however, is supported by hearth evidence. AFAIK, to at least 600,000 years ago.
13 posted on 08/19/2003 5:52:27 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Dems lie 'cause they have to...)
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