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Cooking! The external stomach that expanded homo sapiens' diet by leaps and bounds!

I am so into reading What Technology Wants right now that every thought and idea seems to lead back to questions of human technology. Kevin Kelly, the author, uses the construct of cooking as a technology that gave us an external stomach, a form of pre-digestion, that took food we couldn't otherwise have digested or extracted nutrients from and made new sources of calories, and therefore of longevity (and therefore of ideas, and therefore of more technology).

It's a really interesting book.
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