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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by onemoreact on Monday August 08, 2011 @03:58PM (#2861360)
My understanding was controllable fire predated anatomically modern humans. I remember one theory that basically said using fire allowed modern humans to evolve with a larger brain because fire aided digestion.

PS: Seems to be up in the air: Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 0.2 to 1.7 million years ago (Mya).[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans Note: Homo erectus is fiarly diffrent from Homo sapiens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus

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Re:Philips LED bulb Tear-down by gamble on Monday August 08, 2011 @10:50PM (#2862619)
I heard this theory as well, in a history of science class. The professor claimed that you can extract something like 60% more food energy from an egg by cooking it.
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