14. Fire

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The use of fire played a big role in the path of human evolution. Fires provided a place to gather, a way to cook food, a warm place to sit by, and a new way of hunting.

Early species used the fireplace as a social area. The members of the group could sit around the fire and communicate. Some say this helped the early humans evolve into the modern Homo Sapiens.