Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> This increases the digestibility of of food by a lot. This is because the > energetic cost of digestion will be reduced greatly, because we can come > along with smaller gut and shorter chewing time, but also we can get much > more energy from the food because we will get much higher digestion rates. > It is not that humans are adapted for cooked food, but even a cat prefers > her mouse rather cooked than raw, because it is more easy to digest. > See the book "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028P9BE6 This has an in-depth discussion of the effects of fire and cooking on human evolution. The author claims that humans are adopted for cooked food. We could not survive without it. - Jed
