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The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Inquiring Minds
The Origins of the Mammalian - The Story of Homorectus
Homoerectus was a savanna predator that hunted in pacts. Homo erectus tamed the use of fire and found that eating meat, which is what they were specialized to do, around a fire, was a sociable thing to do. When you cook meat, it kills any germs or parasites that might have existed in the meat. And another thing that eating the food, along with a lot of other things, allowed was the enlargement of the brain. So homorectors could have a slimmer gut, because it's easier to absorb a mixed diet based on meat. They had a taller, leaner frame that allowed them to do something that earlier hom
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