Comment Are you kidding me? (Score 0, Flamebait) 28
"Our findings challenge the widely held belief that humans only began influencing the environment with fire in the recent past"
This brings into question all their findings. No way a million hunter and gatherers had any significant impact other than an occasional wildfire, which we still do by mistake today. The difference is that today we can leverage fossil fuels to extract more fossil fuels; we aren't picking up sticks by hand like our ancestor's did. So obviously this study has a political agenda.