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How early humans' quest for food stoked the flames of evolution
- karmakaze 6y agoInteresting take, which seems highly plausible in retrospect. Will have go go back and read for the backing data. > [...] according to the new hypothesis. > “This key moment when we decide whether or not to use fire has, at its core, just the tastiness of food and the pleasure it provides. That is the moment in which our ancestors confront a choice between cooking things and not cooking things,” said Rob Dunn, a professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University. “And they chose flavour.” > Cooked food tasted more delicious than uncooked food – and that’s why we opted to continue cooking it, he says: not just because, as academics have argued, cooked roots and meat were easier and safer to digest, and rewarded us with more calories.