Re: [Ice Age] TL0 Gadgeteers and Civilization-Building
There is a case to be made that the control of fire, and the cooking that it made possible, reduced the amount of energy required for digestion, freeing up energy that could support a larger and more demanding brain, and thus making possible the evolution of sapient hominids in the first place.
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Bill Stoddard
I don't think we're in Oz any more.
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