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Lack of bees due to colony collapse lead to almond shortages.

Fire for cooking may be necessary to fuel human brains.

"Many anthropologists think the key breakthrough was adding meat to the diet. But Wrangham and his Harvard colleague Rachel Carmody think that’s only a part of what was going on in evolution at the time. What matters, they say, is not just how many calories you can put into your mouth, but what happens to the food once it gets there. How much useful energy does it provide, after subtracting the calories spent in chewing, swallowing and digesting? The real breakthrough, they argue, was cooking."

What does that say for raw food enthusiasts?

"Human beings evolved to eat cooked food. It is literally possible to starve to death even while filling one’s stomach with raw food."

That's what it says.

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