Sustaining and transporting fire demands culturally transmitted skill

Evidence

It’s likely that our species’ reliance on fire began with the control of fire , perhaps obtained from naturally occurring sources. Nevertheless, just capturing, sustaining, and controlling fire requires some know-how. Keeping a fire going may sound easy, but you have to keep it going all the time, during rainstorms, high winds, and long journeys across rivers and through swamps. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 228

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fire-making skill is so dependent on social transmission that groups can lose it — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 227; Fire building links contemporary practitioners to ancestral identity — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1330; Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Culturally transmitted skills created selection pressures shaping human anatomy and physiology #expands (0.83) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 313
• Dependence on fire shaped a psychological content bias for fire learning. #corroborates (0.82) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 230
• Cultural learning skills drove rapid human adaptation across all habitats #corroborates (0.81) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 125
• Hopeful change depends on scattered firekeepers carrying the unextinguishable spark #exemplifies (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1380
• Survival in extreme environments hinges on culturally accumulated knowledge, not individual capacity. #corroborates (0.80) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 107
• Indigenous burning was a creative landscape-shaping art and science #exemplifies (0.79) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1338
• Fire building links contemporary practitioners to ancestral identity #expands (0.78) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1330
• Fragile cultural achievements need many conditions at once to survive #qualifies (0.76)
• Culture is accumulated productive force transmitted through language and labor #expands (0.75)
• Skilled migrants carry cultural values and stimulate change in monocultural countries #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3879