Conventional science can provide us plenty of information about human evolution from a hard, forensic standpoint: bones, teeth, relics, and remains which shows us the physical manifestations of evolution - from how mankind first learned to walk through the volumetric capacity of our brains. Each evolution stage effected of course the cognition, which by itself has an evolutionary scale.

Obviously archeology cannot provide a live cognitive brain. The content of a brain. What is more important when one wants to understand humans? Humanity? Oneself?

In The Taming of Fire, author and anthropology enthusiast Chaim Chait dares to think the unthinkable, analyzing the evolution of human cognition and building a timeline of our intellectual progression as a species. Through the eyes of prehistoric man who first encounters - and then tames - fire, Chait makes the fundamental comparison between human evolution as a species to human maturity as individuals. Apes to Sapiens. Children to adults. It is the same on different scales.

Fire for our predecessors was not just instrumental as for the "infantile" pre-mature pre-human, fire was regarded as a living creature. Not an instrument! Fire was a tamed to be a member of the family, somewhat like a household cow or dog. Fire held a central and an integral pivot role in the social structure of the family, later - a god.

Exploring both physical and anthropological findings as well as psychological and evolutionary sciences, The Taming of Fire is a groundbreaking read on how primal man formed a hierarchal, borderline symbiotic relationship with fire that shaped how mankind thought, behaved, and evolved for millennia. Fire was not just instrumental, it was a god.

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