Why Fire Makes Us Human | Smithsonian
Jun 1, 2013 · By bringing people together at one place and time to eat, fire laid the groundwork for pair bonding and, indeed, for human society.
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The Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Engineering a fire-safe world since 1950. Headquartered near Washington, DC, and in Brussels, BE, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers is the world’s leading professional society for fire …
Our Burning Planet: Why We Must Learn to Live With Fire
Oct 8, 2020 · By suppressing all wildfires and incessantly burning fossil fuels, humans have upset the role that fire has historically played in providing ecological balance. We need to rethink our view of fire and accept its …
The Importance of Fire to Human Life - JSTOR Daily
Aug 10, 2015 · In their “A Burning Story” Juli G. Pausus and Jon E. Keeley review the role of fire in the history of life, with its “strong ecological and evolutionary consequences for biota, including humans.” There is evidence for fire 440 …
The discovery of fire by humans: a long and …
Although open fire tends to be built out of Western technology, it persists in many forms as hidden fire, as in the internal combustion engine. Fire has underpinned the development of all modern technologies—from ceramics, to metal …
Global trends in wildfire and its impacts | Royal Society
Oct 1, 2020 · Society needs to understand that we live on a flammable planet where fire has been shaping ecosystems for over 400 millions years. It will be still here in the future, no matter what we do, so we need to acknowledge this and …
How Communities Are Learning To Live With Mega …
Sep 11, 2020 · Instead of treating it as a threat to be swiftly extinguished, communities need to learn to live with fire, as people have before. Increasingly, communities and homeowners are realizing that on...
Toward a Long Prehistory of Fire | Current …
Following a discussion about what fire is and how it articulates with human society, I propose a potential scenario for the prehistory of fire, consisting of three major stages of development.
In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things | The New Yorker
Mar 18, 2022 · Fire kept us warm, and human enterprise expanded to regions that were otherwise too cold. And, as we gathered around fires, we bonded in ways that set us on the path to forming societies.
The interaction of fire and mankind: Introduction
Jun 5, 2016 · This meeting examined historical, evolutionary and biophysical tensions inherent in the fire–climate–society nexus to advance the international, interdisciplinary science …