I agree. Chimps have fairly blunt front teeth, while we have sharp nippers.
Raw meat is no problem if you use your teeth to tear off small bits at a
time. Our current way of eating meat, cutting mouthful-sized bites and then
trying to chew them entire, isn't an efficient use of our teeth.

For example, he once claimed that it would take an absurdly long 5.7 to 6.2
> hours each day to chew enough raw meat in order to get enough calories. He
> based this supposedly on a chimp's chewing rate(unlikely in and of itself,
> IMO).
> Geoff
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> > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:01:23 -0700
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Listen to Richard Wrangham on "How Cooking Made Us Human"
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This mailing list were amongst the first people to read Dr. Richard
> Wrangham's
> > research on "How Cooking Made Us Human", when he was kind enough to allow
> list
> > members to read his unreleased manuscripts on the subject a few years
> ago.
> >
> > Recently, he published his book on the subject, and a few weeks ago, by
> pure
> > chance, I caught some of his appearance on the excellent NPR radio show
> "Science
> > Friday".
> >
> > That show is archived on the web, and you can listen to the show (it is
> about
> > half an hour) at:
> >
> >
> http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510221/112351483/npr_112351483.mp3
> >
> > While he strongly makes the case for the benefits of cooking, and the
> > "paleoness" of cooking as well, he does think that a very carefully
> planned raw
> > diet can be worthwhile - for those looking to lose weight (and explains
> why).
> >
> > For those who are unaware, Wrangham spent many years observing wild
> chimpanzees,
> > and thus is one of the foremost researchers involved in determining which
> human
> > behaviors and characteristics are genetic. For example, he was one of
> those
> > who discovered that wild chimpanzees take part in warfare against other
> groups
> > of chimpanzees, demonstrating that war is instinctual behavior.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ken
>
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