> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 1 topic, 2 evergreens, 1 source</em></s> #### [[Cooking allowed prehistoric humans to spend less energy on digesting]] part of:: [[Foraging allowed for a diverse diet]] In order to digest unprocessed plant and animal matter, you need to have a long and powerful intestinal tract and spend lots of energy chewing. This is a feature of many species from cows to chimpanzee's, but not of the chimpanzee's close relatives, humans. By contrast, we spend a much shorter time chewing and digesting and thus can put our energy into other things. This adaptation likely allowed for larger brains may be linked to cooking. Cooking breaks down a lot of the proteins that stomachs have to in other animals. Similarly:: [[Cracking bones and eating the marrow may have been human's first niche]]. Together, these traits gave us the energy and the time to pursue [[social behavior]] and eventually rule the planet: [[Greater cooperation and communication has lead to the success of humans as a species]]. ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[human evolution]], [[prehistory]], [[cooking]] #### References ![[Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari#citation]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#294248523q]]