How much can you hate a book that has sentences like these?:
Instinctotherapists, a minority group among raw-foodists, believe that because we are closely related to apes we should model our eating behavior on theirs.
In fact I liked the book — How Cooking Made Us Human, by Richard Wrangham — very much. Here is a good review of the book. The one sentence version is:
We are cooks more than carnivores.
I also liked this fragment:
…a bachelor is a sorry creature in subsistence societies…
Here is a strange and wild critique of Instinctotherapy.
???
Humans ARE apes.
Is this theory really new? I recall when I was undergrad that professors at the Krasnow Institute lecturing that fruits, meats, and cooked food leads to enchephalization.
“because we are closely related to apes we should model our eating behavior on theirs”
I, for one, am opposed to eating each other’s face and genitals.
Bonobos are relatively peaceful and sex-loving creatures. Perhaps we could model our behavior after them.
On a more serious note, there is a reason why human teeth and jaws are not like those of other primates. Our diets diverged and we invented cooking hundreds of thousands of years ago and we’ve since evolved respectively.
Haha, I’m more closely related to me than I am to any other ape, so I give my own instincts a healthy amount of respect.
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