Mark Labbee wrote:
> Could you supply your references for use of fire by the genus homo? The
beyondveg web site goes into a in depth discussion of this and can find
no evidence to indicate that fire was used conistently before 125,000
years ago. Also, do you characterize homo habilis as physiologically
modern humans? I don't and neither do the paleo anthropologists I've
read. A whole lot of genetic change occurred between 2 mya and when homo
sapiens sapiens first appeared 100,000 years ago.

The very detailed description of what constitutes a physiologically modern
human was in Eton Boyd's "The Paleolithic Prescription".  Typing all that in
would take time.  I'll have to ask you to either take my word for it, or buy
the book.  Personally, I'd recommend buying the book.  It's fascinating
reading.  As Loren Cordain says on the paleodiet list, he doesn't take the
"plunge" so to speak in his dietary recommendations because of pressure from
his co-authors, but he builds the argument beautifully.  And the
anthropological info is very detailed.

Re the fire thing... I read that on the Web.  I looked through my bookmarks
and I can't find the references--perhaps I didn't bookmark them.  I did a
quick search on google.com on "first use of fire" and the very first
reference came up with this quote: "The first use of fire is generally
associated with Homo erectus, who are thought to have begun using fires
approximately 1,5 million years ago."  If you search on this phrase (use
quotes), you'll find the same thing I did.  That's not the site where I
originally read it through.  Please do a little research on your own.  You
will surely find it.

     - Sheryl