Did Cooking Make Us Human? - Horizon - BBC Two

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We are the only species on earth that cooks its food - and we are also the cleverest species on the planet. The question is: do we cook because we're clever and imaginative, or are we clever and imaginative because our ancestors discovered cooking?

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[butterflygottafly]

I watch these, and I'm in America. I watch anything from BBC that I can find on YouTube. :)

[EllysaE]

@Itachi64s I do

[ToolsnFire]

@TheJUNGLESURFER, look up the word 'nutter'. But anyway, where are the wild habitats where humans can live as you imply?

[TheJUNGLESURFER]

@ToolsnFire man has become weak and thus overpopulates because thats a survival strategy young pubesence, near exclusive grain consumption causes poberty at ten in India..A direction towards fruit consumption is what we need on a global scale buckwheat and hemp will also make a difference . WE CAN GREEN THE PLANET!!!!!! read ben-adamah

[ToolsnFire]

@TheJUNGLESURFER, tell me your side, even though I've already known it, and lived it, and can look at your perspective, which I've had too, with a clear comprehensive understanding. Btw, I just took a trip a couple weeks ago to Washington, so yes I'm a tripper. Apparently you're rather fruity, and a bit of a nutter, but it doesn't have to be a terminal condition, it can just be a phase. I understand. It's a how 'you' make sense of things for real. 'You' live it.

[TheJUNGLESURFER]

@ToolsnFire you are a tripper man is a frugivore

[ToolsnFire]

@Rawwildwoman, we're human, we are generalist omnivores at our best, not solely or even largely fruit eaters, though fruit is good. Humans are cookedfoodarians/cookedfoodivo­res by practical evolution. Go live out in the wild without fire and animals for food. Not gonna happen. Where would would you find suitable wild fruit habitat for humans? Not gonna happen, because we evolved with eating animals and cooking.

[BronsonKatz]

BBC is the shit...

[Nibbit]

@Freshhhhh1982 Ofc I do...and apparantly you do not. Therefore, I will humour you. They were a major part of my biology and health occupation studies. Vitamins are _organic_ compounds that chemically react to certain influences on your body (Example: the sun, food, enviroment). Anything organic is affected by outside sources....such as boiling heat and freezing cold. Extreme tempatures certainly do affect vitamins and can/will destroy them.

[Freshhhhh1982]

@Nibbit Do you even know what a vitamin is.

[Nibbit]

@Freshhhhh1982 Yes, heat does kill vitamins....as I said. Knowing this does not make me "an idiot". However, people who do not know such basic knowledge of nutrition are very ignorant. Your response to me is quite redundant.

[Freshhhhh1982]

@Nibbit Heat kills vitamins. You're an idiot.