Fire: The energy revolution
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The Evolution of Human Brains
The energy released by cooking was essential to the evolution of human brains. But measuring how much energy yaur brain uses requires testing a living brain, and you can only do that if you can bring the living animal to your lap. We would love to know how much energy an elephant brain costs, but right now it would require doing things to living elephants and killing them right afterwards. It's consistent with your mad scientist's behavioraa ha, a ha, ha.
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