Re: News: Harvard Primatologist Says Joys of Barbecue Sparked

Ron O wrote:
On Aug 20, 5:52 pm, Desertphile <desertph...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:22:47 GMT, Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"The first night I sat and really thought about it, I knew this was
very big," says Wrangham of his theory. "I couldn’t believe no one had
said it before."
It was mentioned in talk.origins off and on for over a decade.
Humans evolved to like cooked food, and there are dozens of
articles in science journals on the subject.

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Beats me what the big deal is we were discussing the nutritional value
of cooking food in physical anthro back in the mid 1970's, and they
already had evidence that early Homo erectus was using fire.

I remember reading something about cooking being key to further advancement of Homo, back when I was a kid. And that was over 40 years ago.

It also had one more major advantage: Cooking to high temps helps kill germs and parasites in food. Hence troupes of hominids who cooked their meat before eating it, probably had longer lifespans, and outlasted their raw-meat competitors.


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