> <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

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

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.
Non-domesticated plants also have fewer nutrients and are much harder to
harvest than their modern cousins.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"