Horizon: Did Cooking Make Us Human

00:00:05 Bacon and eggs for breakfast.

00:03:29 Well, this is a type of early human ancestor

00:06:06 than our ancestors', there's nothing like a bit

00:08:36 ..the diet leaves them decidedly dissatisfied.

00:11:12 Could eating meat really have caused us to evolve?

00:14:35 Travis wants to find out HOW they use these weapons to hunt.

00:17:55 meat, but when did they first start to eat it?

00:21:07 eating meat is revealed in a new experiment.

00:23:39 Wait, wait, wait!

00:26:03 in the ingredients of our diet

00:27:52 and it could run as easily as we can.

00:29:45 I was so surprised to find that the spacing between those two holes

00:31:52 which are either butchered OR burnt.

00:34:38 Back at the village, the porcupine meat

00:36:29 What is it about cooking food

00:38:42 After all, the process of heating food does not

00:40:54 With the raw potato, we saw the pieces were coming out

00:42:51 break down as the tough structure of the vegetable

00:45:33 if we can find any difference in the course of digestion between

00:47:18 to begin the long, slow process of digestion.

00:49:33 We think that the smaller digestive system

00:52:06 In the 21st century

00:54:27 The highest level of fat we're giving is the 30% fat

01:00:00 the wonders of our digestive system.