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Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

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New research suggests fire was key to making our bodies successful in evolution – but not in the ways we previously thought.