Cooking may be 1.9m years old, say scientists
Ian Sample, Guardian, 22-08-2011
Early humans cooked up their first hot meals more than 1.9m years ago, long before our ancient ancestors left Africa to colonise the world, scientists claim. Researchers at Harvard University traced the origins of cooking back through the human family tree after studying tooth sizes and the feeding behaviour of monkeys, apes and modern humans. They concluded that cooking was commonplace among Homo erectus, our flat-faced, thick-browed forebears, and probably originated early in that species’ reign, if not before in more primitive humans. “This is part of an emerging body of science that shows cooking itself is important for our biology; that is, we are biologically adapted for cooking food,” said Chris Organ, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard.
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