The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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The Consensus on Behavioral Flexibility
There's an argument that cooking becomes a thing that we do that makes, um, it gives us access to more calories from food. It kind of unlocks their potential a little bit more. And yet we talked about 3.3 million year old tools and Neanderthals with probably language and definitely art. So are we really special or were we ridiculously lucky or both? What's the current consensus or what Kate Wong's thoughts? There's never consensus. Not in science. Not about this.
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