New study finally admits that RAW meat, not cooked meat made us human!

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3484110/Sorry-vegetarians-Eating-raw-meat-2-million-years-ago-changed-course-human-evolution-helping-brains-grow-language-develop.html

Ok, so it is  a flawed study in that, while they correctly do not view cooking as being beneficial to humans(though they wrongly put back the advent of cooking to 500,000 years ago), they still foolishly assume that humans need to endlessly chew their raw meats after having first used stone-tools to split them up.Perhaps someone should e-mail these boffins and explain  that raw-meat-eaters do not need to chew their raw meats endlessly or even use stone-tools(indeed some just use their hands at times).

[RogueFarmer]

Flint actually works better than most kitchen knives do so I would tend to assume using stone tools happened fairy early on.

[dariorpl]

Awesome, thanks for posting!

I actually don't care about the nonsense of cooking 500k years ago nor the stereotypes about chewing raw meat, it's still great that something like this was published in a mainstream media site.

Hopefully a lot more is to come in the next few decades. Probably not though.

[TylerDurden]

The thing the researchers omit is that rpd hunter-gatherers would have eaten aged, raw flesh not fresh, most of the time, so would not have needed any extra tools. After all, they had no refrigeration devices in those days, and they were supposed to have been scavengers eating rotting carcasses for almost all of the Palaeolithic era.