DId Cooking Drive Human Evolution?
DId Cooking Drive Human Evolution?
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DId Cooking Drive Human Evolution?
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Post #1 - May 27th, 2009, 7:09 amInteresting article in today's NYT about a book which argues that cooking our food is what made the human species successful in evolutionary terms. Makes raw foodies' views look imperiled.
GeoSooo, you like wine and are looking for something good to read? Maybe *this* will do the trick!
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Post #2 - May 27th, 2009, 3:07 pmWhile the article does make some interesting points, I think his emphasis on the cooking aspect ignores many other factors, specifically the use of tools and language. I'd make the presumption that psychoactive plants were a catalyst in those areas.
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Post #3 - May 27th, 2009, 4:34 pmI mentioned this a couple months ago about the trip I'd taken to Houston and seeing the difference between Australopithecine fossils ("Lucy") and modern man.
You can't digest and process enough raw food to do more with your life than gather food, unless you're already wealthy.What is patriotism, but the love of good things we ate in our childhood?
-- Lin Yutang
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Post #4 - May 30th, 2009, 2:01 pmGeo, thanks for posting this....looks interesting
For evolution on a much shorter timeline...Mark Kurlansky's The Food Of A Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food from the lost WPA Files.....I found this review especially entertaining... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 16V8PU.DTL
