Did we evolve because of cooking?
19th September 2009
Eating raw food is time-consuming and, in calorific terms, unrewarding. Some things, such as meat or tubers, require exhausting levels of mastication (chimps spend up to five hours a day gathering and chewing their food), and much of it is indigestible anyway, passing straight through the system. Cooking these ingredients breaks down the molecular structures, releasing the calories and making them easier to get through.
Well, I’ve always wondered about that.
September 19th, 2009 at 17:48
yes.