GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Omnivore, Human Conditions, Hard Wired
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Hunters eating rabbit stew, clean fingernails rub it on bread and eat story. Semiotics: the concepts of functions and symbols, how symbols influence us in our lives, help us recognize companies, signs. The subly moment of cooking is when nature becomes culture. When we take nature and do something to it that"s when it becomes culture. Difference between humans and other animals is that humans cook. When we talk about cooking we refer to cooking with heat. Cooking deserves its place as one of the great revolutionary innovations of history. Cooking transforms nature because it takes nature and changes it. Cooking makes food more chewable our bodies work less to consume. Cooking makes food taste better transfers nature into something that is. Cooking makes a lot of food safer because of the application of heat. Since we spend less time chewing and digesting more energy goes to our brains we have 4x larger brain than closest primate (chimp)
