2006-11-22 02:21:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Helped...consider that you need fire to refine/smelt metal and make glass, and that much of our advancement as a species has built on a series of advances in metals technology. No fire, no iron. No iron, no steel...no railroads, no cars, no skyscrapers. No fire, no glass. No glass, no microscopes. No microscopes, no advancements in medicine and biology.
Controlled fire is fundamental to our development as a species.
2006-11-22 02:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by Rusting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ask whether fire was a discovery of some monkey that happened to be our ancestor, or of an animal we may consider human. To keep a fire, to use it as further survival, involves elaborate knowledge. Not only this knowledge has to be discovered, it also must be passed to other members of the group, and to children. That animal was no dummy. Animals know only what they have discovered, perhaps what their parents discovered. Humans have the capacity to receive knowledge from the previous generation, refine and add, then pass it to the next generation. For this reason, the animals that discovered fire were part of mankind.
2016-05-22 14:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helped
2006-11-22 02:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by sooners83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helped.
2006-11-22 03:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire was around before mankind-but it has helped Mankind
2006-11-22 02:23:07 · answer #5 · answered by JustLynn 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The true question is "Would mankind be around if they hadn't discovered fire" They probably prevented another Iceage but are contributing to global warming!!! (TEE HEE)
2006-11-22 02:27:46 · answer #6 · answered by impromptu_57 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helped!!!!!! Forest fires aren't always the result of some idiot smoking in the woods, and it was better that we discovered fire millions of years ago, so that whenever we have a volcano ready to erupt, we can know what to expect, and painful, agonizing death!
2006-11-22 05:56:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one discovered fire because it has always been here, but the use of fire has helped humans for the better since the beginning of humanity, warmth, cooking, defense against attacking animals, and so on....KECK
2006-11-22 02:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by Tneciter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's helped!
2006-11-22 02:24:35 · answer #9 · answered by Naples_6 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an ignorant question...of course it has helped us! I cant even imagine how we would live in the winter time with no fire.
2006-11-22 02:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋