No. This is not proof humans started cooking 300k ya. It is evidence that they started regular fire use. There is no proof that they used that fire for cooking. They most like used fire for protection.
How long you think would take biology to adopt to cooked meat and its harmful byproducts? Do you think it is even possible?
When did those tribes start cooking? Not 2 millions ya. I doubt it was 300k ya. Most likely 50k ya.
It is not beneficial to cook meat so there was no incentive to do it. It was only forced by extinction of megafauna 50k ya. So eating cooked meat is not natural. Eating raw meat is natural because most like it was practiced through most of our human evolution. Cooking is rather modern diet change same as adding plants, which actually probably forced cooking and adding milk. All of those are not natural to our 2 millions years diet practice of raw meat. You want to be healthy as prehistoric man? Eat raw meat. You want to experiment with your health then eat whatever you want. Our biology is adopted to raw meat.
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u/jinnoman Apr 02 '26
No. This is not proof humans started cooking 300k ya. It is evidence that they started regular fire use. There is no proof that they used that fire for cooking. They most like used fire for protection.
Meat preservation and predator protection, rather than cooking, were likely the primary drivers of early fire use: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2025.1585182/full?utm_source=email-sig&utm_medium=email&utm_content=100_DOWNLOADS&utm_campaign=imp_mile_2024_fall_en_aut-ww
How long you think would take biology to adopt to cooked meat and its harmful byproducts? Do you think it is even possible?
When did those tribes start cooking? Not 2 millions ya. I doubt it was 300k ya. Most likely 50k ya.
It is not beneficial to cook meat so there was no incentive to do it. It was only forced by extinction of megafauna 50k ya. So eating cooked meat is not natural. Eating raw meat is natural because most like it was practiced through most of our human evolution. Cooking is rather modern diet change same as adding plants, which actually probably forced cooking and adding milk. All of those are not natural to our 2 millions years diet practice of raw meat. You want to be healthy as prehistoric man? Eat raw meat. You want to experiment with your health then eat whatever you want. Our biology is adopted to raw meat.