The cooking hypothesis

Everyone knows that humans are further evolved than other animals (as far as we discovered) but do you also know why we are this evolved?

Well, in this blogpost were going to talk about exactly that. In 1990 RIchard Wrangham discovered that around 1.6 million to 1.8 million years ago the brain of the homo erectus started growing rapidly compared to before. It is suspected or almost confirmed that this is the effect of the human species learning to cook.

So we learned how to cook meat and such above fires? No not necessarily , cooking can mean different things like for example crushing, storing/saving, and other methods. I’m not saying they didn’t use fires and cooked meat but ashes of 1.8 milion years ago haven’t been found yet so we can’t prove it is the case but neither can we prove that it isn’t.

Now what did cooking do for the homo erectus? Well for example a gorilla eats for 80% of the day, we used around 20% which meant we had more time to think about culture and our surroundings and our communications and so on. What ended up happening was a rapid growth of our species that happened so fast that mother Earth couln’d even keep up and we got ontop of the foodchain.

And now from the cooking homo erectus that got our species a huge headstart we evolved into homo sapiens that cooks for pleasure and loves eating not for the purpose of it necessarily but for the taste and the enjoyment.

Thanks for reading,

T’ill next time