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Hi,
Just noticed this on MSNBC and have included the website and a few
paragraphs that caught my attention...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/299263.asp
LEARNING HOW to cook probably also allowed humans to develop
their
unique monogamous society, the researchers reported in the journal
Current
Anthropology, to be published in December.
"The process of human evolution had much to do with food and
how it
was prepared," Gregory Laden of the University of Minnesota, who
helped lead
the study, said in a statement.
Laden, Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and colleagues
noted
that very early pre-humans, including the australopithecines such as
"Lucy,"
had huge teeth and powerful jaws.
"This indicates that they ate a lot of food over many hours of
the
day," Laden said in a telephone interview.
"It has got to be low-quality food," he added, including raw
foods
such as roots, nuts and seeds.
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