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Re:Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs? by msla on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:50PM (#24535101)
No, merely that we can't get enough fat and protein to build brains from fruit.
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Re:Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs? by ben_w on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:15AM (#24544398)
You can definitely do that today.

I have no idea if our pre-human ancestors could or couldn’t do that in the rift valley while they were inventing cooking without fire — I don’t even know if it is possible to find out now if they could have done it then — but you can do it today.

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