>This is my basic confusion about Neanderthin. If foods that require cooking
>are out, then why isn't cooking out? Is it because nobody in their right
>mind (except for a few strange instinctos) would ever eat all-raw including
>animal foods? Is it because cooking paleo-foods has not been found to be
>problematic to a significant enough degree to justify the extreme of an
>all-raw paleo-diet?

Good point.  Beans and grains are generally considered out because to eat
them they generally need cooking, yet we cook most of our meat.  Of course,
beans are dangerous uncooked and would not have been eating by early man.
But most Neanderthin eaters are eating meat cooked, the way late
Paleolithic man would have often eaten it since he had discovered fire.  He
also may have discovered cooking and eating beans at this time.