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Evidence for the cooking of fish 780000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Israel (nature.com)
52 points by hmartiniano 1309 days ago
1 comments
trevorkoob 1308 days ago
Makes sense that we have been cooking for a long time.

Our intestines look as though they have evolved around an environment of cooked food, and that takes many many thousands of years

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Koshkin 1308 days ago
Well I’m sure other species took advantage of forest fires, too.
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qubex 1308 days ago
“Taking advantage of forrest fires” is not a long-term strategy for survival unless you also evolve a penchant for arson, and then you’d run out of forests pretty quickly once your local population rises even slightly.
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cuttlefisch 1308 days ago
The article also indicates the fish were cooked at a controlled temperature
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fuzzfactor 1307 days ago
I would estimate they were doing just fine even if they had yet to perfect digital temperature control.
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