How Has Fire Affected Our Species

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How Has Fire Affected Our Species Fire has been around for a while with the human race and it has affected us in many ways. Some of those effects are Larger brains more compact and stronger muscles and more protein. Fire has affected all of these things and much more and without it we might not be here.
It has even gave us a key component of “The Human Spark” which is our ability to use critical thinking and our language to express our wants and needs instead of just mimicking other sound we need or using only what is necessary. We (as proven in class) are able to ramble on uselessly as much as we want. All in all Fire has helped the human species grow and develop in the ways that we have.
In our living spaces we will have froze if not for

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