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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maddie Burakoff

RARE PHOTOS: How cooking food and gathering for feasts made us human - The Real Truth

Ella Maru/Tel Aviv University

If you’re cooking a meal for Thanksgiving or just showing up to feast, you’re part of a long human history — one that's older than our own species.

Some scientists estimate our early human cousins may have been using fire to cook their food almost 2 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens showed up.

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