you will view any anthropological evidence through your
>mindset of raw. You will even conjecture that primitives would stand around
>the campfire and NOT cook their meat. Maybe they didn't--but maybe they
did.
>
>In any case, there is some evidence that cooking fires have been around a
>long time, long enough for some adaptation to take place.

yes possible.

No known
>hunter-gatherer tribes were all raw (though the Inuits came close I guess),
>and there is no evidence to show that any culture would return to an
>all-raw diet after mastery of fire.

None except few crazy raw foodists so you don't have to worry there is
lot
of chance that we wil stay just a few.ON top of that,  because eating
raw
might be  unhealthy we might just end up there the lineage.

Perhaps--and this is just a _perhaps_
>so you don't have to get all defensive and consider me judgemental--early
>humans who adopted cooking didn't do so because it was some horrible
>addiction, but because it improved their lot in life.

the same way than agriculture did or the industrialisation of food
production  did  and the
geneticaly engineered crops will.
favorising the spreading of humans species to a point that the next
step in
the future might to recycle the deads in a nicely flavored meal. ( we
allready do that for animals)

addictions are not horribles  a definition of insanity given in the 12
step
program ( who deal with adictive behavior ) is to do the same thing
over and
over and expecting a different result ,it is like sin who means
missing the
target.

We expect satisfaction from denaturing our foods and obviously we
don't
because are going farther and farther in that direction.

That they would
>extend their dietary through cooking as any animal who could master fire
>would--if they had a big enough brain and the opportunity. Perhaps. I can
>imagine that cooking was the end of an era in our heritage, but not
>necessarily a step back. Pros and cons

not a step back !  it is a determinant step which brought us where we
are
now.it is an essential element in the trend we are collectively
following.
The trend is  one of self abuse and self destruction ( either by
autoimmune
processes or destruction of the environment and genocids.

. Each way. Must be more pros than
>cons to cooking since humans have adopted it universally-

like agriculture and now occidental culture

-excepting
>neo-traditional moderns like yourselves who fight the never-ending battle
>to convince anyone who will listen that you eat right.

I leave this judgement to you. Why are you loosing your time to listen
to me
in the 1st place?
i could not even convince myself,  i got convinced despite my
resistances.
i don't eat raw to convince anybody i do it because it suit me..
>
>Perhaps you are a bit overenthusiastic yourself? It is easier to see it in
>other people than in yourself, no?

I share my enthusiasm and it is okay with me !

jean-claude