On Sat, 16 May 2009 05:41:27 -0600, Geoffrey Purcell
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> The real problem with the notion of inventing cooking is that Palaeo
> hominids had no previous example to start from,
Actually I don't think that's true. Wildfires were probably common enough
on the savannah even before matches were invented. A hungry human might
easily have eaten from a freshly killed and lightly scorched antelope.
Even some scorched tubers, pods, etc., might have
been eaten. It isn't as if fire was invented de novo on a human hearth.
Lynnet