On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:15:36 -0600, william <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Paleo Phil wrote:
>> Wrangham believes that humanity was launched by an ape learning to cook.
>
> Must have been an ape as stupidly self-destructive as modern man,  
> considering the effect of cooked food on health.

I doubt the apes, or even early man, took much notice of the effect of a  
food beyond a day or two after eating it.  Something you eat today  
affecting you 20 years from now would not have even entered his brain.

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   Robert Kesterson
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