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I also suspect it's a lot harder to advance technologically when you live underwater. One of the big boosts to human evolution was the mastery of fire and devel
by FreeFull 10y ago
I also suspect it's a lot harder to advance technologically when you live underwater. One of the big boosts to human evolution was the mastery of fire and development of cooking.
- bduerst 10y agoDepends on whether or not cooking would expand an octopode diet the way it did with humans. They're also technically "cold" blooded.
- eridius 10y agoAlso booze. The desire to make our own alcohol is what triggered the spread of agriculture, if I remember my old history classes correctly.
- WalterBright 10y agoAgriculture predates history.
- eridius 10y agoRecorded history, perhaps. Doesn't mean we can't still figure things out about what happened before recorded history. But don't ask me how we figured out that humans switched to agriculture in order to make booze, because I'm not qualified to answer that, all I can tell you is that I learned this at some point from someone else who is more qualified than I am to talk about this.
- noiv 10y agoWell, essentially cooking is trying to dissolve food in water - a non existing problem for octopi, mussels taste raw, too!
- mertd 10y agoI have never heard of that reasoning. What's the advantage of dissolving in water? There are other advantages of cooking such as producing shelf stable foodstuffs and increasing the bioavailability of nutrients.
- Mikeb85 10y agoCooking is about breaking down cell walls, allowing us to expend less effort digesting food, making more calories available.