{"id":1458,"date":"2008-02-13T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/13\/crazy-anthropologist-links-foo\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:43:11","slug":"crazy-anthropologist-links-foo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/crazy-anthropologist-links-foo\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Anthropologist Links Food, Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe this guy?  Check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once proposed that humanity began with cooking. [a Twin Cities anthropologist] says love may have begun with cooking, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The earliest human ancestors, some kind of chimp-like apes, were living off raw plant foods and probably doing a bit of hunting like chimpanzees do now.<\/p>\n<p>And then, somebody discovers the ability to control fire. Everybody argues about when this happened. We&#8217;re saying it happened about 2 million years ago. Suddenly, all this food that was previously poisonous or indigestible becomes edible. We&#8217;re talking about grass seeds, like wheat. And tubers. The amount of energy available to these early human ancestors goes up a huge amount. So, they get bigger. At the same time, their jaws get smaller, which is supported by the fossil record. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and so on and so forth, bla bla bla.  Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/life\/ci_8240268\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe this guy? Check it out: The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once proposed that humanity began with cooking. [a Twin Cities anthropologist] says love may have begun with cooking, as well. &#8230; The earliest human ancestors, some kind of chimp-like apes, were living off raw plant foods and probably doing a bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/crazy-anthropologist-links-foo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crazy Anthropologist Links Food, Sex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[212,95,218,219,858,220],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-nw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}