I found an article with a rather bold hypotheses that I can't keep from you all: Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart.
It states that human brains started to gain size and energy consumption when we began cooking our food. The increased availability to the energy contained in the food by cooking them started the cognitive evolution.
So, we're all dumbing down here on Wai
Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart
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Re: Cooking and Cognition: How Humans Got So Smart
Or did we start cooking, because we got smarter? (Correlation is not causation)halfgaar wrote:It states that human brains started to gain size and energy consumption when we began cooking our food. The increased availability to the energy contained in the food by cooking them started the cognitive evolution.
But anyway, it only applies to vegetables. Many vegetables are poisonous, or unable to be digested well if raw. However with meat and fruit, cooking it lowers the amount of energy (but increases the density of energy, by driving off water).