>Fire would have allowed Neanderthals to cook those animals, making the meat easier to chew and more nutritious. I understand fire/cooking may make meat more b

>Fire would have allowed Neanderthals to cook those animals, making the meat easier to chew and more nutritious. I understand fire/cooking may make meat more bio available to humans (I suppose it is also possible to make meat/food more nutritious, or at least chemically alter certain enzymes making the food arguably more nutritious in certain instances)...but can we really apply human digestion broadly to neanderthals? Is it not possible Neanderthals were better equipped to digest and/or absorb calories/nutrients from uncooked meat/food generally? Anyone know of differences in modern human and modern monkey/chimp/ape digestive systems?