Did Cooking Make Us Human?
By BBC 2 - HORIZON - IPLAYER
Added: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 UTC
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We are the only species on earth that cooks its food - and we are also the cleverest species on the planet. The question is: do we cook because we're clever and imaginative, or are we clever and imaginative because our ancestors discovered cooking?
Horizon examines the evidence that our ancestors' changing diet and their mastery of fire prompted anatomical and neurological changes that resulted in taking us out of the trees and into the kitchen.
Broadcast on:
BBC Two, 9:00pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Duration:
60 minutes
Available until:
9:59pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
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