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