When did hominins start cooking? It might be earlier than we thought

Indeed, we know that cooking is not unique to our species and was practiced 750,000 years ago.Evidence that hominins deliberately expose food to heat always turns out to be further receding Michael Marshall

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This time of year when the temperature drops, I want to eat pie. I don’t know if some unrecognized genius invented the pastry and came up with the idea to put a casserole in it, but I owe them a debt that I can’t repay. . How long have humans deliberately exposed food to heat to make it better?

You may remember the recent story that reported evidence that humans cooked carp in earthen ovens in what is now Israel some 780,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest tangible evidence of cooking…