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The relationship is established by the hypothesis that cooking food provided the necessary caloric energy to support the evolution and maintenance of a larger brain, as described in [1].
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To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything scientificamerican.com 1 fact
perspectiveRichard Wrangham of Harvard University has proposed that cooking food, which makes it easier to chew and digest, may have provided Homo species with the extra fuel required to power a larger brain.