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Anthropology

PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Cooking food was crucial.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 27, 2022, 09:47 PM

Jan 2022

More to the point, there would not be one and only one thing that made us human. Lots of things came together: walking upright and getting out of trees, eating meat, cooking food, making tools. Language. Heck, language is probably the single most important thing that made us human. But again, probably not the only thing.

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Did Eating Meat Make Us Human? Don't Be So Sure, New Study Says [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2022 OP

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Cooking food was crucial. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2022 #4