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    • Did Cooking Make Us Human?

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      Humans are the most intelligent species on the planet and the only species on earth that cooks its food. This leads to the question, are we smart because our predecessors discovered cooking or do we simply cook because we’re clever? A group of scientists in Did Cooking Make Us Human, embark on an epic adventure to determine the role our diet has played in the evolution of the human brain.

      The film examines Australopithecus and Habilis and the size of their brains. The Habilis, which is our first ancestor believed to have eaten meat had a brain 30% bigger than his forebear. Scientists are determined to uncover whether this is due to the change in diet. The Bitemaster 2, is an interesting gadget that has been fitted with genuine Australopithecine teeth and is put to work on a carrot for the first time in three million years, will it succeed?

      Another scientist embarks on a voyage with bush hunters, people who haven’t really been exposed to the technology of the 21st century. He goes searching for food with them and witnesses a trapping of a porcupine. The bush hunters kill the porcupine with merely a spear.

      So what does all of this mean? Are we smarter because we discovered to cook our food? Warning, this documentary will make you hungry, with images of bacon, eggs, and savoury meats, so I recommend you watch it on a full stomach.


      The theory suggest that had our ancestors not learned to cook their food, we may most likely still live and behave like chimps.

      This documentary takes a deeper look into how cooking was developed and discovered, and how this has made our lives (and digestion) easier. It explores what impact cooking eventually delivered to mankind.

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      Published on May 24, 2010 · Filed under: Anthropology, Biology, Environment

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    • Brian Berardi

      Confirmation bias is all over this. interesting premise but the statement that ” modern humans cannot live on uncooked vegetables alone” is fallacious, [well not technically no. but the ancestor in question didn't either.] they simply needed to add in things such as nuts, and berries. particularly soy beans.

    • Joacim Persson

      “they simply needed to add in things such as” …meat. There are only two natural sources of vitamin B12: animal food (meat) or feces. Take your pick.

      Meat eating goes further back than the 4 million years the documentary suggests. Our nearest relatives today are evidently omnivores too and the most recent common ancestor lived about 6 million years ago. (Chimps hunting is well documented and analysis of Bonobo feces shows evidence of animal food in the diet. The political situation in Kongo the last 20 years has made field studies of Bonobo impossible so we don’t yet know if they hunt too or only forage for easy animal grub such as insects and bird eggs.) Recent research suggests that Australopithecus also were omnivores, but on the other hand it has been debated if we really decend from them or from an earlier common ancestor.

      So much for ‘confirmation bias.’

    • (just a) FROG on the LOG

      Bull shit I’ve watched 72 Megavideo minutes! They need a new timer. Well, the first 30 were rather thought provoking, so I’ll come back for the rest of this one later. An interesting question that has not been addressed yet at this point in the video would be WHY did we start cooking.

      @ Joacim – Its also documented that less than 3% of a chimps diet consists of meat. Bonobos? – I don’t know.

      I think B12 can be found in eggs, too. Seems to me eggs would be a lot easier to come by than meat. Are you suggesting that meat , or the vitamin is critical to a humans survival? Because I know of plenty of strict vegetarians, that neglect to add supplements to their diet and they seem to be surviving just fine.

      And, (maybe I’m getting this wrong, but…) didn’t they say in the video that austalopithicus had large flat mollars that were pretty much useless for consuming meat?

      One more thing, and this is just a guess, but couldn’t an increase of meat in the diet come down to things as simple as food source availability, efficiency, and a little ingenuity? I mean, I could kick around in the woods here in Michigan all day long and not find anything more than some accorns to munch on. And its going to take a lot of time, and a lot of accorns to be enough to fill my belly. But, I see plenty of squirells eating accorns too. If I am smart enough to figure out a way to catch & kill that squirell, I’ll be fat for the rest of that day.

    • (just a) FROG on the LOG

      If the human species were reliant upon MY cooking in order to evolve, we’d all still be monkeys ;)

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    • Chloe

      HAHAHAHHAHA well done Joacim!

      I laughed so hard at “..There are only two natural sources of vitamin B12: animal food (meat) or feces. Take your pick.” Absolutely GOLDEN! I love it!

      I’m sick of Dr McDougall & Dr T.C. Campbell saying “you’re all gonna die unless you become vegans!”

      I’ve even emailed Dr M. about paleo human diets that contained meat but they were healthy and he ignored my question! What he did tell me was that fish, seafood and omega 3 fats are bad for me and that I shouldn’t eat them at all. When I replied with the question about the healthy Japanese Okinawans who eat heaps of seafood he didn’t respond LOL!

    • Wayne

      I just knew it. It’s not the antilope, it’s the microwave I cook it in that is making me fat. I just need to go back to raw meat and vegetables….and knuckle dragging.

    • Lord Metroid

      You do not need weapons to hunt, you can simply run a four-legged animal down if you keep it in constant movement for a couple of hours it will die from heat exhaustion.

      Even today there are tribes of humans living on the African continent that do hunt in this fashion.

    • Matt

      Not to be terribly picky, but there study using people eating like their ancestors was rather flawed. The foods they had chosen had come from a wide variety of regions across the globe. Early humans would have far more limited choices. Tomatoes, Raspberries, and Banana’s would not have been eaten together. There is also the issue of growing seasons.

    • Brentano

      Yes, agreed. There’s a snippet in David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals on the last disc called “Tool Makers” which followers exhaustion hunters who stalk prey for hours, imagining where it fled, until it has not the strength to continue.

    • joe

      the people they picked for the study were almost all if not all out of shap, then they are put on raw veg diet…..no wonder they were runnin for the bathroom. you get someone whos use to eating lots of that, they would be fin for a week if not longer with no meat……….eat some carrots

     
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