On Tue, 28 May 2002, Don Wiss wrote:

> Proposes that the use of fire to cook food could date back almost 2 million
> years, a good 1.5 million years before the timing traditionally accorded it.
>
> Cooking, and How It Slew the Beast Within
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/science/social/28COOK.html

I'd be interested in learning more about this claim: "Surveying
the literature, Dr. Wrangham and his colleagues determined that
of the 48 types of roots, tubers and other potatolike plant foods
eaten by humanity's foraging African forebears, 21 require
cooking to be comestible."

Todd Moody
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