*It's impossible to say when cooking was invented, only when evidence of
cooking began to show up in the archaeological record.? I recollect from a
human prehistory class many moons ago that the species has had fire for at
least a million years.? Cooking of meat would show up in the form of burned
bones.? Cooking of grains and legumes requires pottery.? But roots and
tubers can just be pushed into the coals to roast.?*
**
This leads me to something I've been wondering about since I've started
reading this list. How long is long enough for the human race to have
adapted? Is it 100K years? 250K? A million?

As an aside, on the subject of tubers, I think we simply dug one up and
said, "Let's see what this tastes like after cooking for a while." 'Cause
we're stupid that way. I also like the wildfire theory that was proposed.
Perhaps not as complicated as seeing bugs eat it, but simply the food
sources were destroyed and they were willing to try anything.

Marianne