How fire and lava may have made us who we are, Michael Medler, TEDx WWU

Dr. Medler describes his theories on the crucial, and often overlooked, role that fire played in human evolution. He provides some ideas as to how early humans may have mastered fire, and what that meant to our physiology. Dr. Michael J. Medler received a in Geography from the University of Arizona in 1997. He has served as chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University and as President of the Association for Fire Ecology. He was also the founding editor of the