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by tokenadult 6281 days ago
It is not evolutionarily warranted. It is very clear that by the time the species Homo sapiens came around, hominids in the human ancestral line had already been eating cooked food for a long time, and many physiological and anatomic differences between humans and chimpanzees are adaptations to eating cooked food.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wrangham/wrangham_index.html

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1...