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The tastiest sentence I read today
The trigger for the large, calorie-hungry brains of ours is cooking, argues Richard W. Wrangham, the Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Here is another bit:
...it turns out that there are no records of people having a large amount of their food come from raw food.
Here is much more, interesting throughout. Thanks to Yan Li for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 26, 2007 at 07:01 AM in History | Permalink
Comments
"it turns out that there are no records of people having a large amount of their food come from raw food."
The vast majority of Inuit food in the winter months is raw meat. Admittedly, this miht reflect
less on preferences, and more on practicalities.
Posted by: SJE at Dec 26, 2007 1:16:44 PM
If I'm not mistaken, the now-extinct indigenous Tasmanian people did not use fire, and therefore would have eaten raw food.
Posted by: Peter at Dec 26, 2007 9:24:25 PM
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