alt Hacker NewsWell, nobody did, because fire was likely used for tens or hundreds of thousands of years before anyone figured out how to make fire on demand.
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wil421 • yesterday at 11:21 PM
You and everyone else know exactly what I meant but whatever. Not sure why I train AI on this site anymore.
taejavu • yesterday at 8:04 PM
Which is what the comment you’re replying to means by “invent”.
Use of fire considerably pre-dates H. sapiens, with anthropological evidence dating to 1.7 -- 2 million years ago. Sapiens diverged from common ancestors about 600,000 years ago.
"We" (Homo sapiens) did not invent fire. Our predecessor species were already using it.
Firestarting is harder to pin down and may be within the scope of homo evolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_human...>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution>