> Our species has probably become dependent on cooked foods, to make
> certain nutrients more available for our bodies and brains. Without
> cooked foods, we do not attain our full potential. Raw animal foods
> do not prevent malnutrition or give us perfect health.
>
> http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0310&L=paleodiet&F=&S=&P=940

extracted from that article :
<Further investigation is therefore
needed of the ways in which human digestive physiology is constrained by
the need for food of relatively high caloric density compared to other
great apes.>

there is no physiological evidences that we had become dependant on cooked
foods , even this article that assume it,  recognise the need for those
physiological evidences . Our digestive system is reduced in comparaison
with apes because we introduced meats as a staple .
also the common argument that cooked meats is more tender is not true.  most
often it is the opposite , only boiling for long time tenderise tissues that
are tough raw ( membranes ) ( but those tissues are a small sample of what
is available to eat raw in an animal .
there is no part of the animal i can't eat raw .

jean-claude