>> <www.nildram.co.uk/veganmc/encephal.htm
>>
>> <(this has some real graphs and numbers in it)>
>>
>> what do you think of this argument?
>> jean-claude
>from Ray
>Far better arguments (with charts and graphs) may be found in Aiello and
>Wheeler's "The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive
>System in Human and Primate Evolution" (Current Anthropology vol., 36 #2
>[April 17, 1995] 159-221.
>
>or
>
>Leonard and Robertson's "Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Nutrition: The
>Influence of Brain and Body Size on Diet and Metabolism" ( Am Journal of
>Human Biology vol. 6 (1994) 77-88

could you give a summary of thoses arguments ?
>
>It also takes more than just fire to cook technology dependent foods.
Pots,
>grinding stones and ovens are lacking in the record of early man.

the article that i posted here was not questionning cooked or not cooked,
but was questionning the necessity of meat eating to developpe big brain.
>Non-domesticated plants also have fewer nutrients and are much harder to
>harvest than their modern cousins.
it is surprising , i would have thought the opposite, what are the basis for
this affirmation?
>jean-claude
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