How learning to cook helped the human brain to grow – and may even have led to the emergence of culture and civilisation
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 
Author Learning to cook may have helped the human brain to grow, leading to the development of tools, culture and civilisation, say scientists.
Obtaining enough energy for a large brain by eating nothing but raw food simply takes up too much time, the study suggests.
The advent of cooking would have provided a much more efficient way of delivering calories to neurons, allowing the brain to expand.
A reconstruction of a male Homo Erectus with a spider’s web. Researchers now believe they may have developed cooking skills to save time spend eating
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