What Was the First Meal Ever Cooked?

How did ancient humans go from eating everything raw to cooking every meal? Every animal on Earth eats its food raw. Except you. So who was the first human to put food into fire - and how did that one moment change your brain, your body, and even your sleep? In this animated history documentary, you go back almost two million years to the prehistoric grasslands of Africa and live the day cooking was discovered - as a Homo erectus man in the Stone Age, from the hungry search for roots, to a lightning-struck plain, to the very first campfire night. You'll learn: Why a chimpanzee spends 5-6 hours a day chewing, and you spend less than one Why a cooked egg gives your body almost double the protein of a raw one The 1-million-year-old fire found deep inside Wonderwerk Cave The 780,000-year-old fish dinner discovered in Israel Why Neanderthals may have lost fire - and found it again How the campfire shaped human evolution: your sleep, your stories and your imagination And the twist: the first cook may not have been human at all This is the story of food history, ancient history and human history in one meal - how prehistoric humans turned fire into the habit that may have made us human. Research mentioned in this video includes Richard Wrangham's cooking hypothesis and Polly Wiessner's study of firelight conversations. If you were there, two million years ago, standing on that smoking ground... would you take the first bite, or would you run? Tell me in the comments. Subscribe for more stories from world history, the Stone Age, and the mind of ancient humans. #AncientHumans #HumanEvolution #FoodHistory