Why Humans Started Cooking Their Food
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Why did humans start cooking their food? In this video, we explore the science and archaeology behind the invention of cooking, from the myth of raw food diets to the evolutionary trade-off that gave us bigger brains. You'll learn how cooking transformed our bodies, freed up our time, and shaped human history. Chapters: 00:00 We cannot live on raw 00:12 Three questions 00:24 The myth 00:36 Digestion done outside the body 00:48 You extract more from it 01:00 Six hours of chewing 01:12 Five hours a day, freed 01:24 The jaw gave up 01:36 And so did the gut 01:48 Trading gut for brain 02:00 Fire made it possible 02:12 Which means very early 02:24 Fire barely leaves a trace 02:36 The best candidates 02:48 The pattern is the proof 03:00 The gap is the problem 03:12 Or the evidence just vanished 03:24 Maybe not fire first 03:36 Slicing already helps 03:48 A broken jaw-muscle gene 04:00 Then the dating slipped 04:12 The oldest known meals 04:24 That is a recipe 04:36 Three layers, not one cause 04:48 A fire is a fixed point 05:00 Delay creates sharing 05:12 The first appointment 05:24 We do not know when 05:36 There is no route back 05:48 It used us back
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