Cooking gave humans edge over apes ?

i wouldve thought that the fire that came before the cooking wouldve given us more of an edge...

i wouldve thought that the fire that came before the cooking wouldve given us more of an edge... I agree

i wouldve thought that the fire that came before the cooking wouldve given us more of an edge... Maybe it went this way lol Fire = Heat Heat = Less Hair for winter Less Hair = Better Hunting, Less weight and so on or maybe not

Since MAN was accompanied by his Best Friend the Dog, who shared the spoils of the hunt, and the cooked food, why is my Beagle not as advances as WE? When she wakes from her 14 th. nap of the day I will ask her!

So if we keep feeding apes cooked food, we'll eventually see evolution take place turning the ape into modern humans.

Its simple, cooked food is easier too eat. Meaning all the jaw muscle we had to eat raw food shrank to allow for larger brains. I saw it on a show on cavemen once, It showed the muscle capacity of "man who at raw food" vs modern humans, or (people who started cooking) the Muscle capacity of the raw meat eaters was large and their brains were smaller.

This article makes sense to me. The greater the energy intake and the less the energy 'output' in the act of digestion then the greater the amount of energy left for hunting, gathering, thinking (as a consequence of having more 'free time' other than for pure survival, experimentation and social discourse (exchange of ideas). After all we do have a vestigial vermiform appendix which may have been used to digest cellulose. I would imagine the the net energy input from cooked meat is far greater than that from 'raw' cellulose. The following quote probably sums it up. "Its major importance would ... [More]

i wouldve thought that the fire that came before the cooking wouldve given us more of an edge... I think it's because cooked food made digestion easier, thus freed more energy for our brains to develop or something.

Sitting around the campfire one night a group of cavemen eating the days catch, bumping laughing and munching away, till one of em accidentally drops his piece of meat into the fire. Jumping and shouting 'Grrr! my food my food Grrr!' out of desperation he grabs a stick flicking it out of the burning coals, picking it up 'sniff grrr sniff' decides to take a bite anyways 'hmmmm awesome!!' passing the piece of meat around to his friends out of sheer excitement, they all start jumping and shouting hands & meat in the air, as one by one they all start tossing the meat into the fire...Wolla, the... [More]

Sitting around the campfire one night a group of cavemen eating the days catch, bumping laughing and munching away, till one of em accidentally drops his piece of meat into the fire. Jumping and shouting 'Grrr! my food my food Grrr!' out of desperation he grabs a stick flicking it out of the burning coals, picking it up 'sniff grrr sniff' decides to take a bite anyways 'hmmmm awesome!!' passing the piece of meat around to his friends out of sheer excitement, they all start jumping and shouting hands & meat in the air, as one by one they all start tossing the meat into the fire...Wolla, the... [More]