First author Katie Zink, a lecturer who undertook the experiments at Harvard University, explained it further. "What we showed is that by processing food, especially meat, before eating it, humans not only decrease the effort needed to chewit but also chew it much more effectively," she said. "With
Date: Mar 10, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Changes in diet and processing of food reduced the time on Mastication: Harvard Research
"What we showed is that by processing food, especially meat, before eating it, humans not only decrease the effort needed to chew it, but also chew it much more effectively" said first author Katie Zink, a lecturer at Harvard University in US.
Date: Mar 10, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Cooking food essential to evolution of human brain, study says
Eating meat and using stone tools to process food apparently made possible key reductions in the jaws, teeth and chewing muscles that occurred during human evolution, said study author Katie Zink, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, in a statement.