Cooked food made us what we are:
The unrivalled success of the human species is down to our mastery of flame and our use of it to transform raw food into cooked. Ours is a species built on hot dinners, not cold plants and berries. The theory is cold comfort for the raw food movement, which believes that it is natural and healthier to eat uncooked food.
This makes a lot of intuitive sense. After all, we’re the only species that cooks its food. It’s amazing that this hasn’t been hypothesized long before now. Read the whole thing.
