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How did people learn to make fire? Where were the first traces of regular hearths found and how old are they? Why did the Heidelbergers actively make fires, Neanderthals much less, and sapiens could not exist without fire? When did people learn to cook porridge and fry meat? And how did fire help human evolution? In the new episode of "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens" Stanislav Drobyshevsky talks about the taming of fire. Subscribe to @RTVItainment and like RTVI News - all the main events in the 24/7 format: / myrtvi 00:00 "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens". Taming fire 02:11 Where and when were the first traces of fires found? 06:25 "It was not the production of fire that was more important, but the control over it" - about regular hearths at ancient sites. 09:11 Protection, hunting or heating: why do people need fire? 15:36 Why did the Heidelbergers actively burn fires, while the Neanderthals used them much less? 17:30 Why did they start using fire for cooking? 20:30 "We unexpectedly lost weight" 22:20 How did the Neanderthals learn to cook porridge? 23:30 How else did they use fire? We thank the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 2 for their help in filming this episode