Dependence on fire shaped a psychological content bias for fire learning.

Evidence

Our species’ increasing dependence on fire and cooking over our evolutionary history may have also shaped our cultural learning psychology in ways that facilitated the acquisition of know-how about fire making. This is a kind of content bias in our cultural learning. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 230

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fire-prone-habitat animals sense fires through infrared, smell, and smoke cues. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 350; Sustaining and transporting fire demands culturally transmitted skill — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 228