Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
>
> In short, there is no evidence whatsoever that cooking was instrumental re 
> human brain-development(though undoubtedly, in terms of cultural 
> development, later on), and the prevailing evidence clearly indicates that 
> cooking was invented only c.250,000 years ago.
>   
Surely taxes and war are evidence of cultural degeneration.

Evidence of fire still /= cooking.
Burnt bones is not evidence of cooking!

I have lived in a true wilderness where there were toothy scavengers, 
and I always burnt bones, otherwise the scraps of rotting meat attracts 
the pests.

The archaeologists seem to lack wilderness experience.

William