Just to explain what I mean, why did mankind decide to cook their food. Monkeys, nor any other animal don’t do it, so why did humans decide to? Why is SLIGHTLY cooking it beneficial for us, while overcooking it isn’t?
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I was on a grid-walk across a burn area once as a temporary laborer. We found a deer that had died in a brushfire, which was likely caused by lightning. It is not a stretch to imagine cave-people finding a similar animal and cutting the cooked meat off of it to carry. Then, noticing that the cooked meat does not spoil as fast as the raw meat, allowing it to last longer.
They likely also saw that there were no parasites in the cooked meat that had to be picked out, though of course, some parasite eggs are so small as to be unseen. Primitive minds make primitive conclusions.
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