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by maxerickson 3565 days ago
Also starchy tubers.

You can get a 5 pound yam out of the ground with a stick. Given a few thousand years, fire using apes are going to look at what is under most plants that they see day to day.

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Very correct.

Cooking also breaks down starches into sugars. And we are the cooking species. It helped drive our evolution forward.

It all seems to be about balance.