Fire: The energy revolution
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Cooking Changes the Way We Eat
Evolutionary biology professor says cooking has played an essential role in shaping the way that humans are to day. Rachel carmody: Anything that allows an organism to get energy more efficiently is going to have huge effects on the evolutionary trajectory of that organism. This lets our guts extract a lot more calories a lot more quickly than if we ate our food raw.
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