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Fri, 7 May 2004 07:07:55 -0400
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Re: Cordain's Paleo Article - and - fire
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On Fri, 7 May 2004 6:35am, william wrote:
> IIRC the mystery was and is why start cooking in the first place? Are
> there secret benefits?

This is no mystery at all.  Cooking makes inedible foods edible and thus
multiplies the number of available foods, conferring a tremendous
advantage.  A person who cooks can eat everything that a person who
doesn't cook can eat, plus much more.

Todd Moody
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