Evidence for the cooking of fish 780000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov Israel

[hmartiniano]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z

[trevorkoob]

Makes sense that we have been cooking for a long time.

Our intestines look as though they have evolved around an environment of cooked food, and that takes many many thousands of years

[Koshkin → trevorkoob]

Well I’m sure other species took advantage of forest fires, too.

[qubex → Koshkin]

“Taking advantage of forrest fires” is not a long-term strategy for survival unless you also evolve a penchant for arson, and then you’d run out of forests pretty quickly once your local population rises even slightly.

[cuttlefisch → Koshkin]

The article also indicates the fish were cooked at a controlled temperature

[fuzzfactor → cuttlefisch]

I would estimate they were doing just fine even if they had yet to perfect digital temperature control.