S C wrote: > > Todd Moody wrote: > > To repeat a point > I've made before, if paleolithic people hadn't eat grains at > least sometimes, they never would have cultivated them. > > That's an interesting observation. I wonder what made grains so attractive > for cultivation as compared to other crops that they ate more often. I can't > imagine. High density calories. Starvation hurts. I imagine it was pure desperation. Another theory I have read about was that some early evidence points to beer making before bread making. People wanted to drink alcohol. Alcohol is a great energy source, and the fermentation process removes many of the toxins. Both vinegar and alcohol are produced naturally in overripe fruit. Bears famously love to eat fermenting fruits, I imagine humans were right behind!