I mean you also need a bigger brain than your body requires to actually use the intelligence your now extra free time allows for. Which is evolution, cooking is just how to get nutritions faster than eating the day away like other animals.
+Milka Kuh Fruits exist and are edible raw before any domestication. That we use artificial selection to grow fruits larger is another thing, but fruits existed and served the same purpose way before man.
Vegetables taste bitter, and don't usually have good flavour. Since fruits were made to attract animals to spread seeds (like that guy stated earlier), they have evolved to taste good and be easy to digest, unlike vegetables.
It’s complete bullshit. Tools is what probably gave us the ability to be human and probably superior (so we say) to others. We would have been able to smash open the skulls of other animals and get to the brain. The brain is high in omega 3 and cholesterol. Our brains need these nutrients
Eating raw doesn’t destroy the vitamins and minerals which has health benefits, the bacteria isn’t destroyed which also helps with digestion. You obviously do a lot of research and critical reading to write a report on a subject so try and bring yourself to take a look into real health and nutrition and bacteria and germs for that matter
Kindella McJohn yup. But for me I cheated my way out of that by going on a 5-day fast before going (cooked) vegan. This shrunk my appetite so I could eat a fibrous meal and not get hungry 5 seconds later. Raw veganism is pure stupidity, you're going to be hungry 24/7 and the "what I ate today (raw vegan)" videos prove it.
Meat is not the only thing we cooked. Meat was actually a small part of the diet (you can tell this my vitamin ratios in their bones and looking at similar cultures today). People learned how to cook plant foods, foods high in starch that were otherwise impossible to eat raw (potatoes, rice, etc). That's how cooking gave us a large amount of calories for our brain size.
Meat is the most important piece of the puzzle. What similar cultures today? All peoples living in Africa now benefit from agriculture. The only similar cultures are uncontacted tribes living in the amazon, and they mostly hunt. Without agriculture eating meat is the only real solution, pretty fucking obvious.
+JiveDadson You should compare the jaw muscles/skull ridges of a gorilla to a human some time, it's incredible to see the difference. Scientists suspect a single mutation could have led to our smaller jaw muscles/bigger brain size: www.nature.com/news/2004/040322/full/news040322-9.html
+Stick Studio it's not about the meat, it's about the plants. Plants require stronger jaws than meat does. Humans have smaller jaws because we eat less plants, whereas gorillas eat more plants and have stronger jaws.
Cooking is an important life skill that everyone needs to learn in my humble opinion. You can't be relying on Hungryman TV dinner, Instant Ramen packs, Fast food McDonald's or Chef Boyardee Ravioli for rest of your life as it isn't healthy. Ever since this quarantine happened, it made me reflect on myself and spent so much time in the kitchen learning recipes on TH-cam. It suddenly became a passion now seeing how cooking can be a crafts and an art. The overall presentation of it just looks so satisfying and appetizing too.
You can eat healthy without cooking as I am kinda proof of as I eat mostly plants that don't require any effort and I'm in better shape than most ppl who do cool. Knowing how to pick out food is important but heating and flavoring food is pretty arbitrary. When people cook something, it makes it less appetizing to me cuz they put some of themselves into it and I don't wanna give them the validation. How dare they assume what flavors I like?
The oldest I've been able to find is on a Mesopotamian tablet from 1800 BC. It's for beer, of course! beeradvocate.com/articles/304/ Although it could be argued that any cave painting that shows an animal being killed is essentially just a recipe for steak.
would be funny if it went like this: (1) Slam one large rock over the head of your desired prey. (2) Jam a stick through it and place on fire (3) Then eat
I wonder one thing: We feed our pets cooked, pre-processed food, and we challenge their brains by just, well, interacting with them. I really wonder if cats and dogs became smarter, just because of them being our pets...
domesticating animals is, in a way, them becoming smarter. what we call human inteligence is a byproduct of the need to abstract thinking, to convey ideas and concepts entirely in our minds. this ability only came about in humans when whe needed to keep in mind extensive group networks and their inner relationships, because living together in a fixed place with a garanteed source of food exploded our population. so, if being social is actually what drove our brains to get where they are now, you can clearly conclude that bringing other animals to live with us, understand our communication to certain levels and develop new group dynamics certainly made them think more complex things than in the wild. And some of them, like dogs, were already group animals, which in mammals usually mean a higher measured intelligence.
***** Though I would not call dogs that smart. I mean, they learned to follow orders, but I also feel that we humans made sure they don't get *too* smart. Or perhaps there was not enough time to make wolves as big brained as we are.
the fact that they learned that by not biting our necks off, instead playing nice and waiting for us to throw free food at them shows a lot more intelligence than you think. domestication does, among a lot of things, strecth a lot of considered puppy behavior into adult life because we as pet owners find them cute and reward them. playing to our weakness to cute things to survive is smart by definition.
cats struggle a lot more to understand our behavior and communication, because they werent originally group animals prior to domestication. they are in this sense way dumber
We should also remember that cooking also will inactivate the food's natural enzymes - thus preventing rapid autolytic decomposition, and bacteria - which not only promote spoilage, but also can be vectors of disease. Cooking kept food edible for longer, and that can be critical where the supply is erratic. Cooking also protected our distant ancestors from microbial pathogens, and on occasion allowed them to eat partially spoiled meat from a kill which reasonably satiated carnivores might have declined to guard for later consumption: as too risky for their health
Paulo Castro No it really isn't.....cooking is using heat to change the molecular structure of the food or changes its nutritional value via heat and other means (fermentation, turning simple starch into sugars). Adding salt and sugar onto food isn't cooking.
+Midnite Reveries no. just no. they love cooked meat without spices on it. My cat always wants my fresh clean chicken more then her whiskas cat food. You must be a raw gay fruitarian or something.
Hey thank you for this. Everyone around me seems to have an obsession with food and I never understood it other than "it tastes good, can be art and we need it to survive" I now have a newfound respect for food thank you. Curiosity can be rewarding
I respect it but i think people who just think its fun instead of remembering the more they eat the more they kill disgusts me. I take very little because i actually respect the plants and animals that nourish me. Being thin should be about compassion, not looking good. Even if it was ugly its still the right thing to do because the less you eat the more life you spare
anthropologists found tribes of people that cook using rocks heated by the sun or other heat sources. its highly probale our most ancient ancestors found that food sitting on those rocks tasted better and cooking evolved from that. I also heard that the evolving human being scavengers found animals dead from forest firesand ate what was good. if it tasted good cooking may have also evolved from there as well. there many ingenious ways of cooking including the use of heated rocks to boil water in a container, hot springs, the sun its self..etc
Harambe was a Western Gorilla whis has similar size but not bigger so you're wrong. Proof:s3.amazonaws.com/quanta-prod/uploads/2015/11/Brain_Lineup_615.jpg
It kills the germs, plus is healthier. It tastes and smells better. Put some seasoning on it put your own personal ingredient and you get what you desire.
Snow monkeys take potatoes to the ocean to clean them, and thus add salt from the salt water to them. I would consider this cooking, why not you? It's at least preparing food before eating. Spiders, alligators, ants, and many other animals don't eat their food/prey right away and take measures to prep it before doing so
Yourz TruIy I'm aware of those examples, but food prep isn't the same as cooking, as far as my definition of cooking anyway. Cooking must fundamentally change the structure and/or nutritional availability of the food, whether by introducing heat, or fermenting it, or breaking it down using salt. Simply washing in saltwater to add flavor or clean it doesn't quite qualify for me. On the other hand, leafcutter ants farming fungus off of collected leaf clippings? That might work.
It's Okay To Be Smart Your leafcutter ant example still doesn't "cut it" by your definition. As you stated, they are farming. They do not eat the leaves they eat the fungus that grows from the chewed leaves. For example, humans also know how to grow mushrooms. If we eat mushrooms raw, it is the same as if we just found the mushrooms in the forest. There is no caloric or nutritional advantage. Farming, in this example, just increases the available food source.
Cooking is all gourmet, the taste. I'm very sure we discovered it by mistake, and not by waking up one day and decided to put the meat over fire just for fun. The gourmet part came after. :)
So I've got a question for you guys, if cooked food helped our brain develop, Could we feed cooked food to animals over a period of century's to allow their brains to develop? Obviously I don't mean feed a dolphin a souffle, but just cooked food in general. a cooked steak, so on and so forth.
+sonicXrules123 Cooking (releasing more nutrients for the body to absorb) allowed our brains to grow to their [mostly] genetically-determined size. It, basically, "unlocked our potential", but said potential was "already with us". Sure, we could "unlock their [animals'] potential" too (and we do, mostly when it comes to pets), but they'd still need the evolutionary drive to HAVE a bigger brain. The bottom line is: *why* have a more calories-consuming brain when "your" average, "good enough" brain allows you to live and reproduce just fine? For evolution, always think in pros Vs. cons. In the interest of being intellectually honest, a fair warning: take my words with a grain of salt: I didn't look for sources to back me up; this is *pure conjecture*.
That is not how natural selection works. Your argument actually reinforces my opinion that this video is wrong. Human brains are not bigger BECAUSE of cooking! It is the other way around! Humans need cooking BECAUSE the brains are bigger! Feeding cooked food to animals will not make their brains bigger! But it is perfectly possible to make animals more intelligent. All you have to do is use selective breeding. Selective breeding is already being used by humanity for thousand of years in agriculture to create better vegetables or more docile cattle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding The problem is: do you want a super-intelligent animal?? Human intelligence is the only thing that keeps us safe. A super-intelligent dog could easily enslave or kill you. The moment you have super-intelligent animals, humans could easily lose control and be wiped out from the face of the Earth.
+Supersum Creations (Robert Joseph Mallet) no if you are overweight your brain isnt burning enough fuel for you to stay fit or to think of the ingeniouse idea that if you stay obese youll get a heart atack.
It's alright. Obese people usually only date obese people if they date at all so they're all on their own lol. It'll handle itself. Maybe they'll deviate into their own separate species in the future.
Meta moment; boiling is one of the earliest forms of cooking, and you can do so by heating up stones in a fire or “ crazing them” and putting them in hide or a big leaf.
4:07 Taking this definition of cooking, we are mot the only species that cooks. For example crocodiles leave fresh kills under rocks to make it easier to digest, bees make honey, elephants brew alcoholic beverages in their trunks...
It's funny the videos on this channel with evolution in the title have more dislikes and creationists in the comment section and this video is about evolution but doesn't have it in the title it has less dislikes and less creationists in the comment section, proof that they go out of their way to find videos on the topic of evolution just to dislike them not take in any of the information and use their stale tired baseless arguments.
If you actually would have looked into the theory of Evolution more you would find out that there hasn't been as much evidence for Evolution as there has been from Creationism. It may look like theres more on the Internet but thats just because more people believe in Evolution, and some people think its a fact so they say it is and give random evidence that hasn't been proven. No one can travel back in time so you aren't going to be able to prove Evolution as much as you aren't able to prove Creationism, but like I said earlier in the comment, there has been more evidence against Evolution. (like the fact that since Darwin came up with Evolution in the book, there hasn't been a single fossil of a ape mid change into a man, those pictures in the video or pictures of what scientists think it would look like.)
jzo_ThePanda ya, but there's is no physical evidence for the religious arguments outside of "this is how I feel." And that isn't an argument. Whether evolution is 100% understood, is not a statement anybody would ever make. But there is physical evidence. The stop gap of evolution thing is also stupid. Fossils are rare. You won't get a fossil for every living thing.
Is the narrator Joe Hanson? Whoever you are I like your voice and face. You are so much easier to listen to and watch than those narrating other science videos.
I allways asked myself if eating warm food compared to cold food, adds energy to our body through the high temperature alone (which is energy, too). It must be at least more energy effective because the body does not need to bring it up to body temperature.
"Cooking allowed us to transition from primitive ape to complex human" Very well said! Thumbs up! Personally, I don't like eating raw food. I actually hate sashimi and sushi -- that makes me feel like regressing 20000 years of evolution made by my ancestors!
*Raw* smoked salmon is not totally raw, actually. And bacteria are killed during the process. Nevertheless, tasty or not, it's a matter of *personal* opinion and interest. None can impose his/her opinion on others.
Omg I'm so used to watching Joe's new videos but wow, compared to this video, he has really gained a lot of confidence and developed his personality since. He's just starting of here and is talking slower and more hesitantly, now he has no problem and looks like he having a lot of fun.
danny1111105 yes, and the layman knows almost nothing about them not that it's an useful skill but i think there is something admirable in being able to chronicle some of the different things into their respective time periods
That's me learnt why we cook. So if any conversation arise I'll be able to say what you guys had just said Thanks guys !enjoy learning Lots of love kitty kats ❤️❤️❤️
It would be nice to know your opinion about people like Markus Rothkranz and all that about only eating vegan raw. That guy says that we waste too much time cooking for example.
Markus Rothkranz is a pseudoscientific snake oil salesman who plays on people's fears and insecurities. But the raw/vegan movement is older and bigger than just him. Vegan is great! Loads of nutrition research supports veganism as a means to get complete, healthy nutrition, and it's good for the environment if that's what you want to do. The raw point of view is flawed, though. It is only in the past few decades that modern agriculture and distribution has made fruits and vegetables so widely available in and out of season, and in such plentiful supply, to make raw diets even feasible. And while our bodies CAN survive on raw diets, there is little (if any) science to support the idea that we are adapted for such diets (unlike our primate cousins such as gorillas and chimps). Raw diets come with risks of hormone fluctuations and malnutrition and should only be attempted with the consultation of a doctor and licensed nutritionist. Richard Wrangham details many of the medical risks of raw diets in his book, linked in the description
Lol medical risks.... Just look at the people who actually follow a raw diet and tell me there nutritionally deficient quit regurgitating what an arctic or tells u and look at the facts
+I AM THE BEAAAASSSSTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think that the person with over 30 exclamation points in their name should be calling anyone stupid.
food is such a big part of human culture, farming exists because if food, culinary arts exists because of food, and so on, one of the big reasons I love cooking
Many carnivores have a stomach with a verry low pH, killing most of what is still in the meat (parasites, bacteria for example). But we as omnivores don't have such a low pH so the salmonella has a better chance of making it through
We can eat fresh raw meat with no issue, it's eating raw meat that has been sitting in the fridge for days that is dangerous because bacteria has had time to multiply. Wild animals can and do get sick and die from food-borne illnesses such as e. coli, salmonella, and parasites.
Electriophile Not entirely. There is a bigger chance to get salmonella form meat that is a few days older. But it doesn't matter that much. And I forgot to say this in my first comment but the imune system from an organism also contributes to getting the disease or not.
Fatima Kane they have adapted and built an immune system for it. Humans haven't because we use fire to cook, and we didn't ever need it. Just like other animals humans technically can eat and digest raw meat perfectly fine.. the only thing is we would most likely get sick because we don't have the right immune system. Remember, humans were originally herbivores and evolved to be omnivores.
So what would happen ---if apes for example are fed cooked food, given more calories than they usually eat. do they just get fatter or are any of that calories being consumed by their brains at all? If they are being consumed by their brains, will they eventually developed to be more human-like?
I don't think so, apes already have their brain that size, so giving them our cooked food would just make them eat less, if they eat more, they will become fat unless they spend that new energy on something else. It was different on us because humans gradually started to learn cooking, it was'nt something that happened from dawn to dusk. Also, I think our brain was starting to get bigger a bit earlier than when we learnt to cook, but cooking allowed its growth even further.
daradidam You've never been to Japan, have you? ;) I used to be worried that they would take over the world, but I spent a fair amount of time there... Not worried anymore!
1:23 -- Judging from the waistlines of some people, their brains are not consuming their expected share of calories 'cause there are a heck of a lot of unused ones around their middles.
Make sure take some enzymes with cooked food. Drink living ionized water ph 6.8-7.4. Some foods should be raw or low temp ionized cooker so no enzyme loss.
You failed to mention that de-naturing our food ruins all the nutrients. it makes it foreign to us only allowing us to absorb very little nutrients to grow.
FirstLawInstinct I'm a big raw food advocate myself, but simply saying something is 'scientifically proven' doesn't make it so. Here's the truth: Cooking degrades some nutrients, but greatly enhances the availability of others. In reality, our bodies are designed to take in food from a wide variety of sources, and that includes both raw and cooked vegetables, as well as certain amounts of meat and animal byproducts. Aside from people with special nutritional needs (i.e. those with diabetes, cancer or metabolic diseases), we should avoid demonizing any type of food if we want to be as healthy as possible. well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/ask-well-does-boiling-or-baking-vegetables-destroy-their-vitamins/?_r=0
Well I am not pro vegan but cooking helped us getting the most out of what we could vind. This helped a lot since we didn't have acces to a lot of food. But it isn't hard for a lot of people to get a lot of food nowadays.
Small nitpick at 2:40, Homo erectus was not first "modern human", which you state correctly in the "There was no first human" youtube. All great stuff IOTBS!
***** My comment was on this youtube, "Why do we cook". He says homo erectus was the first modern human. Homo erectus was ~2 million year ago. "Modern humans" start ~200 thousand year ago.
I literally had an argument with another adult about why we should cook our food instead of eating it raw. They utterly refused to believe me even after showing studies
I read Wrangham's book when it first came out. Such insight! Thanks for popularizing it. One question I have: How in the heck did the indigenous Mexicans figure out that one needed to add alkali to corn meal in order to get all the nutrients -- or that consuming beans at the same time made up for corn's missing amino acids?
I feel like the corn question was answered on the tortilla episode of Good Eats, actually. I should look for that. Loved that show. As for the missing nutrients, I think it demonstrates how adept we are at craving nutrient sources that we are deficient in, part of the ill-understood complexity of "flavor", in all its connotations?
I look forward to me and my cat drinking coffee and talking about life. She's only getting cooked food from now on.
You need to watch Pottingers Kittens doc. before you do.
Lol its been 5 years but watch this video.
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I mean you also need a bigger brain than your body requires to actually use the intelligence your now extra free time allows for. Which is evolution, cooking is just how to get nutritions faster than eating the day away like other animals.
why do we generally cook vegetables but eat fruits raw?
ماهر وحكيم Vegetables are tougher.
Fruits are already designed by evolution to be easily edible, to attract animals to eat them and spread the seeds. Their purpose is to be eaten.
zolikoff Evolution? Domestication my friend. Use the right words my friend
+Milka Kuh Fruits exist and are edible raw before any domestication. That we use artificial selection to grow fruits larger is another thing, but fruits existed and served the same purpose way before man.
Vegetables taste bitter, and don't usually have good flavour. Since fruits were made to attract animals to spread seeds (like that guy stated earlier), they have evolved to taste good and be easy to digest, unlike vegetables.
If I was ever in a biology class and I could write a report on ANY topic I wanted, I would probably make it on how cooking made us human.
this is a good idea...
It’s so underrated!
It’s complete bullshit. Tools is what probably gave us the ability to be human and probably superior (so we say) to others. We would have been able to smash open the skulls of other animals and get to the brain. The brain is high in omega 3 and cholesterol. Our brains need these nutrients
Eating raw doesn’t destroy the vitamins and minerals which has health benefits, the bacteria isn’t destroyed which also helps with digestion. You obviously do a lot of research and critical reading to write a report on a subject so try and bring yourself to take a look into real health and nutrition and bacteria and germs for that matter
This video basically destroyed the Raw Food Movement
bringerofrage bowel movements.
Kindella McJohn yup. But for me I cheated my way out of that by going on a 5-day fast before going (cooked) vegan. This shrunk my appetite so I could eat a fibrous meal and not get hungry 5 seconds later. Raw veganism is pure stupidity, you're going to be hungry 24/7 and the "what I ate today (raw vegan)" videos prove it.
***** can't tell if you're serious or not because I googled breatharian and it's an actual thing...
***** Ok then. Have a good one.
+Tamas Hobor chill out
Meat is not the only thing we cooked. Meat was actually a small part of the diet (you can tell this my vitamin ratios in their bones and looking at similar cultures today). People learned how to cook plant foods, foods high in starch that were otherwise impossible to eat raw (potatoes, rice, etc). That's how cooking gave us a large amount of calories for our brain size.
Potatoes aren't impossible to eat raw
eat one then and see how you feel!
Didnt say that i wanted to eat one, just that they are edible raw...
Raw potatoes are delicious
Meat is the most important piece of the puzzle.
What similar cultures today? All peoples living in Africa now benefit from agriculture.
The only similar cultures are uncontacted tribes living in the amazon, and they mostly hunt.
Without agriculture eating meat is the only real solution, pretty fucking obvious.
My theory:
We like fire, we like putting things in fire, and if something works you stay with it.
Jacob Koch ooga chaka
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But the guvernment wont let us put vegans in fire.... /:
Spongebob lol
Gamer: Of course not. Vegans are tax payers, and the loss of revenue would drain the treasury . . .
Jacob Koch sounds like God. Lmfao
Apes that do not cook must have very strong jaw muscles, which take up skull space. In humans the freed up space houses brains.
+JiveDadson You should compare the jaw muscles/skull ridges of a gorilla to a human some time, it's incredible to see the difference. Scientists suspect a single mutation could have led to our smaller jaw muscles/bigger brain size: www.nature.com/news/2004/040322/full/news040322-9.html
raw meat isnt as tough as youd think. its like 10% tougher than cooked ones which isnt a problem to me.
+Stick Studio it's not about the meat, it's about the plants. Plants require stronger jaws than meat does. Humans have smaller jaws because we eat less plants, whereas gorillas eat more plants and have stronger jaws.
+Breanna May but if plants are cooked they become softer than meat .for instance a potato.
yeah well done thats literally the point of this video glad you worked it out
I'm not wearing pants. Am I still human?
+mena3976 Not with that attitude you ain't
mena3976 No, absolutely not.
No
Yes . wait .idk
yeah, lol
Cooking is an important life skill that everyone needs to learn in my humble opinion. You can't be relying on Hungryman TV dinner, Instant Ramen packs, Fast food McDonald's or Chef Boyardee Ravioli for rest of your life as it isn't healthy. Ever since this quarantine happened, it made me reflect on myself and spent so much time in the kitchen learning recipes on TH-cam. It suddenly became a passion now seeing how cooking can be a crafts and an art. The overall presentation of it just looks so satisfying and appetizing too.
do u even hunt your own food or grow it? anyone can buy food and heat it up. or cook it lol 😂😂😂
@@madlilpony2768 I actually never even hunt before.
You can eat healthy without cooking as I am kinda proof of as I eat mostly plants that don't require any effort and I'm in better shape than most ppl who do cool. Knowing how to pick out food is important but heating and flavoring food is pretty arbitrary. When people cook something, it makes it less appetizing to me cuz they put some of themselves into it and I don't wanna give them the validation. How dare they assume what flavors I like?
Ooh I'd love to know the worlds first recorded recipe or ever our first ever cookbook!
The oldest I've been able to find is on a Mesopotamian tablet from 1800 BC. It's for beer, of course! beeradvocate.com/articles/304/
Although it could be argued that any cave painting that shows an animal being killed is essentially just a recipe for steak.
Yay for beer! Yay for steak!
Beer and steaks . . . Not dissapointed :-D
would be funny if it went like this:
(1) Slam one large rock over the head of your desired prey.
(2) Jam a stick through it and place on fire
(3) Then eat
So, anyone wanna start a campaign to teach cats to cook?
+Oliver Holm Tough luck. It will still take A hundred thousand years before they evolve into cat people.
+Oliver Holm They don't need to cook. They've domesticated a species to do all the work for them. Homo sapiens sapiens domesticus.
Just blend their genes with human's, way easier.
+Valken I hope you don't mean a human and a cat mating.
we already did, they are called french ;)
I wonder one thing: We feed our pets cooked, pre-processed food, and we challenge their brains by just, well, interacting with them. I really wonder if cats and dogs became smarter, just because of them being our pets...
domesticating animals is, in a way, them becoming smarter.
what we call human inteligence is a byproduct of the need to abstract thinking, to convey ideas and concepts entirely in our minds. this ability only came about in humans when whe needed to keep in mind extensive group networks and their inner relationships, because living together in a fixed place with a garanteed source of food exploded our population.
so, if being social is actually what drove our brains to get where they are now, you can clearly conclude that bringing other animals to live with us, understand our communication to certain levels and develop new group dynamics certainly made them think more complex things than in the wild. And some of them, like dogs, were already group animals, which in mammals usually mean a higher measured intelligence.
***** Though I would not call dogs that smart. I mean, they learned to follow orders, but I also feel that we humans made sure they don't get *too* smart. Or perhaps there was not enough time to make wolves as big brained as we are.
the fact that they learned that by not biting our necks off, instead playing nice and waiting for us to throw free food at them shows a lot more intelligence than you think.
domestication does, among a lot of things, strecth a lot of considered puppy behavior into adult life because we as pet owners find them cute and reward them.
playing to our weakness to cute things to survive is smart by definition.
***** Yes, that is quite true.
Though I guess cats did it better. In a way.
cats struggle a lot more to understand our behavior and communication, because they werent originally group animals prior to domestication.
they are in this sense way dumber
"With great power comes great hunger."
Am I the only one who thought of The Flash because he has to eat a lot?
Haha, totally forgot about that fact. You're probably not the only one
Oh right... I remember he always ate sandwiches in the Justice League. xD
He has coffee with 1 cream and 37 sugars
I thought of goku
I thought of Spider-Man because that's what film it's from
No one watches DC!
I can't stop watching these videos!
+Andres Palacio Hehe, true. Scientifically speaking, that is.
We should also remember that cooking also will inactivate the food's natural enzymes - thus preventing rapid autolytic decomposition, and bacteria - which not only promote spoilage, but also can be vectors of disease.
Cooking kept food edible for longer, and that can be critical where the supply is erratic.
Cooking also protected our distant ancestors from microbial pathogens, and on occasion allowed them to eat partially spoiled meat from a kill which reasonably satiated carnivores might have declined to guard for later consumption: as too risky for their health
My cats do not have to worry about food and water as they are always available to them. This gives them time to develop a language.
because cooking makes food tastes better. even animals loves to eat human food.
+Paulo Castro Animals love human food because of the amount of sugar and salt we put into it, not because of our cooking methods.
Midnite Reveries but adding salt and sugar is still cooking.
+Paulo Castro How old are you?
Paulo Castro No it really isn't.....cooking is using heat to change the molecular structure of the food or changes its nutritional value via heat and other means (fermentation, turning simple starch into sugars).
Adding salt and sugar onto food isn't cooking.
+Midnite Reveries no. just no. they love cooked meat without spices on it. My cat always wants my fresh clean chicken more then her whiskas cat food. You must be a raw gay fruitarian or something.
Hey thank you for this. Everyone around me seems to have an obsession with food and I never understood it other than "it tastes good, can be art and we need it to survive"
I now have a newfound respect for food thank you. Curiosity can be rewarding
I respect it but i think people who just think its fun instead of remembering the more they eat the more they kill disgusts me. I take very little because i actually respect the plants and animals that nourish me. Being thin should be about compassion, not looking good. Even if it was ugly its still the right thing to do because the less you eat the more life you spare
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Plants are not living
anthropologists found tribes of people that cook using rocks heated by the sun or other heat sources. its highly probale our most ancient ancestors found that food sitting on those rocks tasted better and cooking evolved from that. I also heard that the evolving human being scavengers found animals dead from forest firesand ate what was good. if it tasted good cooking may have also evolved from there as well. there many ingenious ways of cooking including the use of heated rocks to boil water in a container, hot springs, the sun its self..etc
I actually did have an Uncle Larry. He's dead now.
I know this is real late, but sorry for your loss
Lol
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I think another big reason is that cooking makes food keep longer for us too, so we don't have to go hunting or finding more food so often.
Harambe's brain is actually big as ours.
true
ok.
*was :(
his brain is all over the wall cause of some wack-ass mom...
Harambe was a Western Gorilla whis has similar size but not bigger so you're wrong. Proof:s3.amazonaws.com/quanta-prod/uploads/2015/11/Brain_Lineup_615.jpg
It kills the germs, plus is healthier. It tastes and smells better. Put some seasoning on it put your own personal ingredient and you get what you desire.
I love this channel, it lets you learn, it’s not clickbait, and the people don’t curse! ITZ AMAZING
Snow monkeys take potatoes to the ocean to clean them, and thus add salt from the salt water to them. I would consider this cooking, why not you? It's at least preparing food before eating. Spiders, alligators, ants, and many other animals don't eat their food/prey right away and take measures to prep it before doing so
Yourz TruIy I'm aware of those examples, but food prep isn't the same as cooking, as far as my definition of cooking anyway. Cooking must fundamentally change the structure and/or nutritional availability of the food, whether by introducing heat, or fermenting it, or breaking it down using salt. Simply washing in saltwater to add flavor or clean it doesn't quite qualify for me.
On the other hand, leafcutter ants farming fungus off of collected leaf clippings? That might work.
Cooking involves the use of heat , that's why it's more absorbable
It's Okay To Be Smart Your leafcutter ant example still doesn't "cut it" by your definition. As you stated, they are farming. They do not eat the leaves they eat the fungus that grows from the chewed leaves. For example, humans also know how to grow mushrooms. If we eat mushrooms raw, it is the same as if we just found the mushrooms in the forest. There is no caloric or nutritional advantage. Farming, in this example, just increases the available food source.
It's Okay To Be Smart Nah, that's growing crops (still pretty impressive for insects).
it means they are acted upon evolution and thousands of years from now they also starts cooking
Definitely... Food for Thought! (Sorry, sorry...)
How'd you cook that one up?
What a salty wit...
i probably use 15-20% of my daylight time eating
Fatty.
Just kidding lol
+Till Schwenke Dude, why did you steal this one guy's picture and use it as your own profile picture?
Till Schwenke: Either you are mostly awake at night, or you spend as much time eating as a Hobbit! (yeah, me too . . . )
Cooking is all gourmet, the taste. I'm very sure we discovered it by mistake, and not by waking up one day and decided to put the meat over fire just for fun.
The gourmet part came after. :)
they hypothesis that ancient humans came across "cooked meat" after finding animals killed by wildfires.
@@vincentvega5686 Yep.
It seems like the reasons why we cook are more than *meats* the eye.
Carlos.........>.>
Carlos
Take ur stupid ass bad joke back to the Magic School bus
12 years old child joke
And we must not forget what is at steak here . . .
Very cool video! I didn't even know cooking actually changed the nutrition that much before this video. Thanks!
Thank you Joe, great presentation with the food products!
this video just give me more reasons to say that cooking is one of the most basic things a human should learn
So I've got a question for you guys, if cooked food helped our brain develop, Could we feed cooked food to animals over a period of century's to allow their brains to develop?
Obviously I don't mean feed a dolphin a souffle, but just cooked food in general. a cooked steak, so on and so forth.
+sonicXrules123 Cooking (releasing more nutrients for the body to absorb) allowed our brains to grow to their [mostly] genetically-determined size. It, basically, "unlocked our potential", but said potential was "already with us". Sure, we could "unlock their [animals'] potential" too (and we do, mostly when it comes to pets), but they'd still need the evolutionary drive to HAVE a bigger brain.
The bottom line is: *why* have a more calories-consuming brain when "your" average, "good enough" brain allows you to live and reproduce just fine? For evolution, always think in pros Vs. cons.
In the interest of being intellectually honest, a fair warning: take my words with a grain of salt: I didn't look for sources to back me up; this is *pure conjecture*.
That is not how natural selection works.
Your argument actually reinforces my opinion that this video is wrong.
Human brains are not bigger BECAUSE of cooking! It is the other way around!
Humans need cooking BECAUSE the brains are bigger!
Feeding cooked food to animals will not make their brains bigger!
But it is perfectly possible to make animals more intelligent.
All you have to do is use selective breeding.
Selective breeding is already being used by humanity for thousand of years in agriculture to create better vegetables or more docile cattle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding
The problem is: do you want a super-intelligent animal??
Human intelligence is the only thing that keeps us safe.
A super-intelligent dog could easily enslave or kill you.
The moment you have super-intelligent animals, humans could easily lose control and be wiped out from the face of the Earth.
@@hcm9999 unfortunately we are the only currently. And killing is not indicator of smart.
it doesnt matter that our brains consume 1/5 of our calories, most Americans are very much overweight
+chauncy primm Does that make overweight Americans smarter? #FoodForThought
+Supersum Creations (Robert Joseph Mallet) That was a hilariously punny hashtag.
+Supersum Creations (Robert Joseph Mallet) no if you are overweight your brain isnt burning enough fuel for you to stay fit or to think of the ingeniouse idea that if you stay obese youll get a heart atack.
bibudito kobulia wow
The joke
Is soaring way over your head
Good job
+chauncy primm , maybe their brains consume less and the excess goes around the hips :)
too many cooks
+mickeynotmouse Did you say cooks or...
you mean coc...........nvm
5:15 "we ate our way to becoming a stronger species." Now, America's eating its way to be a fatter species.
Leo Corona *weaker too
We’re preparing for the long winter in season 8 of game of thrones
It's alright. Obese people usually only date obese people if they date at all so they're all on their own lol. It'll handle itself.
Maybe they'll deviate into their own separate species in the future.
Meta moment; boiling is one of the earliest forms of cooking, and you can do so by heating up stones in a fire or “ crazing them” and putting them in hide or a big leaf.
This is suck a fabulous channel ! this is a perfect blend of science and pop culture. bravo!
"Maybe cooking allowed us to get along," Well that DEFINATELY doesn't happen nowadays
That Carolina Crown 2013 intro music that you used to end the video. Omg yes.
The taming of fire made us human. Everything else came with it.
that is so beautiful and poetic!!
That was so motivational! It makes me want to jump into a fire, maybe I'll become human :))))
we have never been an animal. crazy conspiracies.
Michael King I kind of want to see
But then there was Fire and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark
4:07 Taking this definition of cooking, we are mot the only species that cooks. For example crocodiles leave fresh kills under rocks to make it easier to digest, bees make honey, elephants brew alcoholic beverages in their trunks...
It's funny the videos on this channel with evolution in the title have more dislikes and creationists in the comment section and this video is about evolution but doesn't have it in the title it has less dislikes and less creationists in the comment section, proof that they go out of their way to find videos on the topic of evolution just to dislike them not take in any of the information and use their stale tired baseless arguments.
If you actually would have looked into the theory of Evolution more you would find out that there hasn't been as much evidence for Evolution as there has been from Creationism. It may look like theres more on the Internet but thats just because more people believe in Evolution, and some people think its a fact so they say it is and give random evidence that hasn't been proven. No one can travel back in time so you aren't going to be able to prove Evolution as much as you aren't able to prove Creationism, but like I said earlier in the comment, there has been more evidence against Evolution. (like the fact that since Darwin came up with Evolution in the book, there hasn't been a single fossil of a ape mid change into a man, those pictures in the video or pictures of what scientists think it would look like.)
jzo_ThePanda ya, but there's is no physical evidence for the religious arguments outside of "this is how I feel." And that isn't an argument. Whether evolution is 100% understood, is not a statement anybody would ever make. But there is physical evidence.
The stop gap of evolution thing is also stupid. Fossils are rare. You won't get a fossil for every living thing.
we are messing up the planet, what a smart species we evolved into, trial and error i guess
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@@pandaman5724 you are such a simpleton
Is the narrator Joe Hanson? Whoever you are I like your voice and face. You are so much easier to listen to and watch than those narrating other science videos.
I allways asked myself if eating warm food compared to cold food, adds energy to our body through the high temperature alone (which is energy, too). It must be at least more energy effective because the body does not need to bring it up to body temperature.
Well , that kinda makes sense but it doesn't really matter
Cooking is definitely an important and underrated skill people might or should learn in their life
"Cooking allowed us to transition from primitive ape to complex human"
Very well said! Thumbs up!
Personally, I don't like eating raw food. I actually hate sashimi and sushi -- that makes me feel like regressing 20000 years of evolution made by my ancestors!
What about rare steak?
You mean raw steak?
No, I don't eat that either. It's disgusting, esp when I can see blood / red. Makes me feel like I'm a barbarian!
Man you are missing out. Sushi, raw smoked salmon and rare stake is quite tasty.
*Raw* smoked salmon is not totally raw, actually. And bacteria are killed during the process.
Nevertheless, tasty or not, it's a matter of *personal* opinion and interest. None can impose his/her opinion on others.
sushi rice is cooked
Because it tastes better. we have the ability to. We enjoy pleasuring ourselves.
Omg I'm so used to watching Joe's new videos but wow, compared to this video, he has really gained a lot of confidence and developed his personality since. He's just starting of here and is talking slower and more hesitantly, now he has no problem and looks like he having a lot of fun.
welcomes new version of you, Lingo. And thanks,
With great power comes great hunger.... raise a toast to that
HE IS SO MUCH MORE EXCITED IN HIS NEWER VIDEOS, THAT'S CRAZY AHH.
Early humans discover fire.
Two teens were messing around and dared one to put food over the fire.
Now we have computers.
The difference between people and animals? We are animals, just because we are more intelligent doesn't mean we've transcended reality.
early humans: JESSE WE NEED TO COOK!
2:10 YES I understood that cultural reference! I have that slight bit of education and film history in me!
Actually its because walter white said we need to cook
This channel is like a bag of treats for my brain, full of glucose. ^^
Thank you
that would be cool, since before the dinosaurs were some pretty cool creatures out shined by the later to come lizards.
danny1111105
yes, and the layman knows almost nothing about them
not that it's an useful skill
but i think there is something admirable in being able to chronicle some of the different things into their respective time periods
That's me learnt why we cook.
So if any conversation arise I'll be able to say what you guys had just said
Thanks guys !enjoy learning
Lots of love kitty kats ❤️❤️❤️
It would be nice to know your opinion about people like Markus Rothkranz and all that about only eating vegan raw. That guy says that we waste too much time cooking for example.
Markus Rothkranz is a pseudoscientific snake oil salesman who plays on people's fears and insecurities. But the raw/vegan movement is older and bigger than just him.
Vegan is great! Loads of nutrition research supports veganism as a means to get complete, healthy nutrition, and it's good for the environment if that's what you want to do. The raw point of view is flawed, though.
It is only in the past few decades that modern agriculture and distribution has made fruits and vegetables so widely available in and out of season, and in such plentiful supply, to make raw diets even feasible. And while our bodies CAN survive on raw diets, there is little (if any) science to support the idea that we are adapted for such diets (unlike our primate cousins such as gorillas and chimps). Raw diets come with risks of hormone fluctuations and malnutrition and should only be attempted with the consultation of a doctor and licensed nutritionist.
Richard Wrangham details many of the medical risks of raw diets in his book, linked in the description
Lol medical risks.... Just look at the people who actually follow a raw diet and tell me there nutritionally deficient quit regurgitating what an arctic or tells u and look at the facts
It's Okay To Be Smart Why lead with an ad hominem? Calling him a psuedoscientific snake oil salesman is irrelevant and does you no favours.
Ben Sammut It lets you know what he thinks of him though.
+I AM THE BEAAAASSSSTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think that the person with over 30 exclamation points in their name should be calling anyone stupid.
As a soon to be college student majoring in culinary arts, it is absolutely astonishing how much we as a species have evolved
lol I actually do have an uncle Larry who is weird and loves talking about politics at holiday meals :D
food is such a big part of human culture, farming exists because if food, culinary arts exists because of food, and so on, one of the big reasons I love cooking
soooo... is anybody going to address the facrt that at one point in our evolution we did not have a lower jaw? 2:38 number 5
I think it was just a skull they found that had its jaw missing since they are attached by muscles
The jaw isn't attached to the skull. That's why you are able to move it.
I just love those movie clip references. :D "I drink your MILKSHAKE !!!"
Why don't animals get salmonella eating raw meat? But we do?
Many carnivores have a stomach with a verry low pH, killing most of what is still in the meat (parasites, bacteria for example). But we as omnivores don't have such a low pH so the salmonella has a better chance of making it through
We can eat fresh raw meat with no issue, it's eating raw meat that has been sitting in the fridge for days that is dangerous because bacteria has had time to multiply. Wild animals can and do get sick and die from food-borne illnesses such as e. coli, salmonella, and parasites.
Electriophile Not entirely. There is a bigger chance to get salmonella form meat that is a few days older. But it doesn't matter that much. And I forgot to say this in my first comment but the imune system from an organism also contributes to getting the disease or not.
because we are more adapted to a herbivore diet
Fatima Kane they have adapted and built an immune system for it. Humans haven't because we use fire to cook, and we didn't ever need it. Just like other animals humans technically can eat and digest raw meat perfectly fine.. the only thing is we would most likely get sick because we don't have the right immune system. Remember, humans were originally herbivores and evolved to be omnivores.
Congrats on 1 million subscribers!
So what would happen ---if apes for example are fed cooked food, given more calories than they usually eat. do they just get fatter or are any of that calories being consumed by their brains at all? If they are being consumed by their brains, will they eventually developed to be more human-like?
I don't think so, apes already have their brain that size, so giving them our cooked food would just make them eat less, if they eat more, they will become fat unless they spend that new energy on something else. It was different on us because humans gradually started to learn cooking, it was'nt something that happened from dawn to dusk. Also, I think our brain was starting to get bigger a bit earlier than when we learnt to cook, but cooking allowed its growth even further.
Another book I'd highly recommend is Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson.
I clicked on this video expecting it was about meth. was very disappointed.
MrAwawe Same here.
😂😂😂
we cook for the taste! the nutrients and sanitation was just a welcomed bonus.
I never liked sushi anyway.
but japanese people are clearly very intelligent tho
daradidam No relationship between those ideas.
daradidam
You've never been to Japan, have you? ;) I used to be worried that they would take over the world, but I spent a fair amount of time there... Not worried anymore!
Douglas Holt Sounds to me as if you changed your mind from one wrong extreme to the other ;)
This was refreshing.
I drink your milkshake!
1:25 that was gold
1:23 -- Judging from the waistlines of some people, their brains are not consuming their expected share of calories 'cause there are a heck of a lot of unused ones around their middles.
That's why cooking is such a great primal pleasure.
Coool
Make sure take some enzymes with cooked food. Drink living ionized water ph 6.8-7.4. Some foods should be raw or low temp ionized cooker so no enzyme loss.
You failed to mention that de-naturing our food ruins all the nutrients. it makes it foreign to us only allowing us to absorb very little nutrients to grow.
FirstLawInstinct Yes I was very confused when he went to the cooking aspect in the video, what parts did he get right though?
Elizabeth Cole All of them. The 3 statements made by FirstLawInstinct on the other hand are all false.
it's scientifically proven..
FirstLawInstinct I'm a big raw food advocate myself, but simply saying something is 'scientifically proven' doesn't make it so. Here's the truth: Cooking degrades some nutrients, but greatly enhances the availability of others. In reality, our bodies are designed to take in food from a wide variety of sources, and that includes both raw and cooked vegetables, as well as certain amounts of meat and animal byproducts. Aside from people with special nutritional needs (i.e. those with diabetes, cancer or metabolic diseases), we should avoid demonizing any type of food if we want to be as healthy as possible.
well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/ask-well-does-boiling-or-baking-vegetables-destroy-their-vitamins/?_r=0
Smart sir
Because Mr. White says so
My old boss is in the stock footage of this video SO COOL!
sorry raw vegans,, we have advance brain, human cook!!
Apparently that 'advance brain' doesn't help with your grammar.
Lol got him.
Apparently people tend to shove grammar up into other peoples ass when they can't make a valid argument.
Rafi Ahmed Chowdhury lol rekt em
Well I am not pro vegan but cooking helped us getting the most out of what we could vind. This helped a lot since we didn't have acces to a lot of food. But it isn't hard for a lot of people to get a lot of food nowadays.
Amazing!
why do we cook meth
deividas Staneika for that money
We do it all for the Family.
Same reason we drink alcohol awareness of death.
Small nitpick at 2:40, Homo erectus was not first "modern human", which you state correctly in the "There was no first human" youtube.
All great stuff IOTBS!
***** My comment was on this youtube, "Why do we cook". He says homo erectus was the first modern human. Homo erectus was ~2 million year ago. "Modern humans" start ~200 thousand year ago.
I literally had an argument with another adult about why we should cook our food instead of eating it raw. They utterly refused to believe me even after showing studies
"We ate our way to becoming a better species" - awesome I`ll quote that from now on
Got me thinking about some things with this one. Wow
Ha ha ha! That egg gag was clever! 3:44
You should check out Suzana Herculano-Houzel's TED lecture!
I can't believe there was no mention of the classic literary work "Dissertation on a Roast Pig". After this video, that is almost required reading....
Brilliantly Said!
Wow Now I know why we cook!!!😃Thanks Dude!!!!!😊😊😊
That's a great book.
How can a people dislike this type of videos
Raw dieters.
Creationists
Non evolutionist morons.
Vegans
I never thought of that. Fire is not the only tool for cooking.
I read Wrangham's book when it first came out. Such insight! Thanks for popularizing it. One question I have: How in the heck did the indigenous Mexicans figure out that one needed to add alkali to corn meal in order to get all the nutrients -- or that consuming beans at the same time made up for corn's missing amino acids?
I feel like the corn question was answered on the tortilla episode of Good Eats, actually. I should look for that. Loved that show. As for the missing nutrients, I think it demonstrates how adept we are at craving nutrient sources that we are deficient in, part of the ill-understood complexity of "flavor", in all its connotations?