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Ever wonder why we cook our food? We do it because it tastes good, of course, and because our customs and traditions are built around it. But we also cook our food for some basic biological reasons, because of evolution. Some scientists think that figuring out how to cook actually MADE us human!
If conversation gets a little dry around your holiday table, now you’ll have some awesome science to share with everyone!
Richard Wrangham – “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human”
“The Raw and the Stolen” (PDF) – Richard Wrangham et al.
(that one has some of the counterarguments, too)
Greg Laden’s summary:
Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain:
Man Entered the Kitchen 1.9 Million Years Ago:
What made us human: and
The story might not be quite so simple, though:
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This is satisfying to watch when eating
Jokes on you I can't even fry an egg
So if the increase in protein from meat was responsible for our increased brain size then why are we the only one's?? Why aren't all the other carnivores evolving the same way? Anyone know? Any evolutionary biologists out there?
So no evidence of fire around this time period. Which means this entire video is just a theory with no evidence.
This dude's bangs…
Is it not true that some foods will lose their nutritional value through cooking?
I eat raw sausages dont judge me thats just how i am
Ask Walter White.
Because it's just basic chemistry 🙂
It's fantastic
Dogs eat cooked food together with human.. Why didn't the become rational beings?
Lol when the showed the Geico commercial
a little bit disturbance from background music
I love cooking
Im eating right now
1:16 ahem its 86 billion neurons
Bad title for this video
The one who managed the subtitle sucks
I have a theory that cooking came about when meat/food was on a hot ground it cooked the food. And where in the world is the hottest temps all located at? Mainly northern africa
English caption unsynced.. 😵
Evolution theroy is a false religion. It is also not scientific and it has zero evidence. The one who with his entire heart seeks God will find him. Something lile that i remember is written it the holy Bible. I whant to help you whovere is reading this. Here is proof that evolution theory is false https://youtu.be/vYLy7CCgqDk
so true, but still so many ppl know how to cook out of italy
I'm weird uncle Larry
I dRiNk YoUr MilKsHaKe
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In a nutshell to enhance the flavor and kill bacteria
"with great power comes great hunger"
now I see why goku eats so damn much
Because BBQ is freaking awesome!
Cuz cooking makes food tastier kills harmful organism and makes food easier to digest especially meat
We cook because it makes food safer, and also makes food taster better in many cases.
It is Easyer to digest and chew. We have adapted to cooking if we ate raw meat we would get sick. Point made
why does no one take a monky and feed him cooked meat ?
imagine the first people who cooked something and imediately tasted 100x better
Starts teaching dog to eat cooked meat
Scratch that, A fuccin tiger.