Write an essay about how fire made us human. Discuss what it means to be human and how fire provided a strong set of symbols for thinking about what it means to be human. Consider two aspects (a) societal and psychological, and (b) biological and physiological.
(a) Did fire and its control give rise to the communal society and the family structure? Did cooking influence the roles for men and women in a family? How did fire influence culture and psychology in societies? Present your analysis and validating evidence, if available.
(b) Did cooking and eating cooked food provide the hinge on which the biological evolution of humans turned? Present your analysis and validating evidence for one the statements that you believe is true:
(i) humans were already evolved before they systematically used fire for cooking, and eating cooked food had no significant impact on biological evolution, or
(ii) cooking and eating cooked food triggered the evolution of our modern human ancestors from ape- like ancestors.
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