ANT 101 - 001
12/06/2019
Cooking Up Bigger
Brains
The article "Cooking Up Bigger Brains" written by
Rachael Gorman. Harvard University biology anthropologist Richard Wrangham
claims that our ancestors do not always eat raw food. Wrangham researched the
fruits that monkeys eat and the same fruits that people can survive. However,
his conclusion is that people cannot have enough calories and body fitness by
eating only fruits. Wrangham claimed that it was impossible to live like this
for a long time. That is why Wrangham believed that people should eat cooked
food. Because Wrangham says that high calorie and energy needs can only be
achieved with cooked food. In addition, cooked food leads to bigger bodies and brains.
Wrangham began research in this direction. First, Wrangham
began to investigate our ancestors in the past. Wrangham understood that Homo
Erectus's tooth structures and brain structures had a brain and smaller teeth
that were 50% larger than the homo habilis, the previous humanoid species.
Wrangham did not find a clue that researches of past people eat raw meat.
Wrangham concluded that our ancestors' body was more suitable for cooked meat.
Because cooked meat provides very high calories. Raw meat does not provide this
high calorie. When Wrangham examined the species of wood found in the remains
of a homo erectus dating back 1.6 million years, he found evidence of burned
wood.
Wrangham claims that even if the scientific world has not
been able to accept this, homo erectus are fed with cooked meat as a result of
examination of the body structures and organs. Perhaps it is a homo erectus
that has eaten the burnt parts of a flaming tree as a result of a lightning
strike. However, according to Wrangham, he believes that homo erectus feeds on
cooked food. But, when this is proved in the scientific world, it will show
that humanity has cooked and eaten even a long time ago.
Written by Erdogan Akbiyik
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