Comment on Rip
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months agoI mean our evolution really kicked off from outsourcing our digestion. That meant more calories could go to the brain. That’s the aspect I’m focused on.
Comment on Rip
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months agoI mean our evolution really kicked off from outsourcing our digestion. That meant more calories could go to the brain. That’s the aspect I’m focused on.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well… if you want to get really into anthropology, there’s an argument that outsourcing our digestion (via early agriculture) actually made us a lot weaker and dumber. It was social pressure (often explicit enslavement) that forced people into the agricultural lifestyle. But that a booming population powered by cheap, reliable agriculture allowed multitudes to outperform by volume what exceptionally smart and strong but scare individuals achieved in small tribes.
More advanced forms of sterilization became necessary as populations hit certain critical levels of risk for pathogens and other hygiene problems. And so modern techniques, like vaccination and pasteurization, are really just extensions of this ten-thousand year trend towards urbanization that require health and safety precautions as a condition of our dense population centers.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agriculture is different than cooking.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Try eating raw grain.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We were cooking wayyyyyyyyyyy before agriculture.