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To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by guyrocket@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.

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[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

fire makes sense given many evolutionary biologists think cooked food influenced the ability of early hominids to evolve complex reasoning and symbolic logic, simply because proteins partially digested by fire make more nutrients available for brain growth

this theory is beginning to be contested, however: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842772/