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Lonely-Description85 t1_jdw7lyh wrote

Reply to comment by Gtronns in Why are nonhuman erect bipedal animals so rare? by violetmammal4694

There is biological evidence, can't find link atm, that when our species first started to eat saltwater fish was when our brains' frontal and temporal lobes really started to develop. Our occipitals were already highly evolved from our ape ancestors. So as we started to initially travel along ocean and river lines, eating omega rich foods skyrocketed our cognitive development even more.

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Gtronns t1_jdw86h9 wrote

Yeah, ive heard some theories like that, basically we are hairless water apes.

Ive also heard that we made leaps and bounds intelligence wise once when we started cooking our food with fire. Some theories say that we started eating cooked food after scavenging the remains after a forest fire, and finding cooked meat. Hard to say what actually happened, but i find that one to be a fun one.

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Lonely-Description85 t1_jdw9g6x wrote

It would make sense, the smell of a well cooked deer from a forest fire might have engaged the hunger mechanism in our ancestors, I could get behind that idea.

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Gtronns t1_jdw9nex wrote

"Dammmmn tuk-tuk, what smells so gooooood?" grunts and points to brunt deer in response

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