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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Probably cooking our food made the biggest change

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Fri Feb 8, 2019, 02:54 PM

Feb 2019

that made us fully human.

We are the only species that does that. Read Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham.

It's fascinating.

Starting with fat some 4 million years ago was a step in the right direction, but cooking food was a truly huge game changer.

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A taste for fat may have made us human, says study [View all] Kali Feb 2019 OP

Bacon! Autumn Feb 2019 #1

especially! Kali Feb 2019 #2

I'm soooooooo human! Squinch Feb 2019 #3

Probably cooking our food made the biggest change PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #4