25 Oct 2015
by Jim Rose
in development economics, economic history, environmental economics, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking
Tags: expressive politics, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, vegetarianism
02 Aug 2015
by Jim Rose
in economic history, health economics
Tags: economics of physiology, PEETA, The Great Escape, vegans, vegetarianism

Eating meat and cooking food made us human, the studies suggest, enabling the brains of our prehuman ancestors to grow dramatically over a few million years.
Although this isn’t the first such assertion from archaeologists and evolutionary biologists, the new studies demonstrate that it would have been biologically implausible for humans to evolve such a large brain on a raw, vegan diet and that meat-eating was a crucial element of human evolution at least a million years before the dawn of humankind.
via Sorry, vegans: Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains – The Washington Post.
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