He watched with dreadful fasination as the flame crawled up the match, and he realized that there on a tiny scale, was both the power of creation and destruction; it could cook food, illuminate darkness, melt iron and sear human flesh.
A Harvardanthropologisthas proposed that usingfireto cook foodcould be dated back toalmost two million years and that itcouldexplainhominidfeatureslike having a largebrain and smallteeth.