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Big question- did the first humans cook meat or fish?


mead107

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I'm guessing something fell into the fire and they pulled it out and ate it in the morning and it tasted pretty good. 

 

There's some research on how cooking food allowed for the enormous expansion of brainpower in humans; bigger brains coincided w/ smaller jaws and teeth as we didn't need to be masticating tough raw fare. Cooking also requires patience, planning, and can increase the nutritional quality of many foods, enabling us to spend more time on developing society instead of constantly searching for our next meal. Cooking and agriculture were perhaps two of the biggest developments in our species' history.

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