Why Do People Cook?
The Economist takes a look into the evolutionary role of cooking with the help of anthropologist Dr. Richard Wrangham of Harvard University. Wrangham believes "that cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity's 'killer app': the evolutionary change that underpins all of the other—and subsequent—changes that have made people such unusual animals."
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According to his group great apes prefer cooked food.
I thought it was cute that their apes all have names (and they were written on a serious scientific paper) :-)
hmw0029 at 10:16PM on 02/19/09