To Build a Fire

[Jazer]

If you go back in history there is one thing that consistantly makes man different. He cooks his food. No other animal cooks their food. ALL animals prefer cooked food IF they had the choice. Cooked food is easyer to chew so we have smaller teeth and less muscle in our jaw. Cooked food is easier to digest so we have smaller tummys and as a species we can run further. If there is any truth to evolution then the ability to cook our food had to have had an impact on the way man evolved. Some people think raw food is better but it's not. You only absorb about 51% of raw food. Cooked food you can absorb up to 90%. It's faster to chew and quicker to digest. The whole point of cooking is to make it mushy. The softer the food, the quicker you will digest and utilized it's nutritional value.

 

[Blayz]

We can run further than what? The EvilThey you go on about in other threads? Field mice? Turtles?

 

[Jazer]

We can run further than what?

Further than anything that we may want to chase after to eat for dinner.

 

[MattRose]

Do all animals prefer cooked meat? One day I was going to test that theory on my dogs, but I haven't gotten around to it.

 

[Eudaimonist]

ScienceDaily (Aug. 10, 1999) — MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--Fire provided the "spark" for modern human evolution, but not because it allowed our ancestors to eat meat. Rather, it was the ability to cook tuberous roots akin to carrots, potatoes and beets that caused hominids to turn a major evolutionary corner about 1.9 million years ago, according to anthropologists Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, Gregory Laden of the University of Minnesota and Harvard colleagues David Pilbeam, Jamie Jones and NancyLou Conklin-Brittain. The researchers will publish their hypothesis in an upcoming issue of Current Anthropology.

Light My Fire: Cooking As Key To Modern Human Evolution


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Nostromo]

Do all animals prefer cooked meat? One day I was going to test that theory on my dogs, but I haven't gotten around to it.

I'm not sure that would be an entirely fair test, as modern domestic dogs developed around humans and, consequently, cooked meat.

 

[Eudaimonist]

I'd like to see if a tiger prefers cooked meat to raw meat.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[MattRose]

I'd like to see if a tiger prefers cooked meat to raw meat.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Will the least laziest of us please look it up?

 

[sfs]

Great apes prefer cooked food.

 

[pgp_protector]

Further than anything that we may want to chase after to eat for dinner.

So you can outrun a lion?

 

[pgp_protector]

Speed of Animals — Infoplease.com

 

[Tinker Grey]

I wonder if cows prefer cooked hay.

 

[Naraoia]

So you can outrun a lion?

I think he means endurance, not speed

 

[pgp_protector]

I think he means endurance, not speed

Well for endurance, wouldn't that go to something like the Dog then, IIRC sled dogs can run over a 100 Miles in a day for multiple days.

 

[sfs]

Well for endurance, wouldn't that go to something like the Dog then, IIRC sled dogs can run over a 100 Miles in a day for multiple days.

Dogs (and wolves) are also excellent endurance runners, and endurance hunters. Horses are good at distance too.

 

[pgp_protector]

Dogs (and wolves) are also excellent endurance runners, and endurance hunters. Horses are good at distance too.

Don't forget the camel also, I'd have a hard time going 5 miles walking where they go

 

[Jazer]

I wonder if cows prefer cooked hay.

only the ones that have evolved

 

[rjc34]

only the ones that have evolved

We started cooking food first, and then evolution took hold and began selecting for traits that made it advantageous to eat cooked food. Why do you think we have the vestigial appendix!

 

[Nostromo]

Don't say the V word! It may have an alternative function that nobody knows about

The only one I found is that it tried to kill me.

 

[Blayz]

The whole point of cooking is to make it mushy.

mushy steak?